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Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Tierra Amarilla building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Tierra Amarilla, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Tierra Amarilla artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Tierra Amarilla. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Tierra Amarilla brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Tierra Amarilla map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks1
- Rio Arriba County
Streets and roads3
- Henrys Village
- 1703 Drive
- Tusa Lane
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico
Tierra Amarilla is the county seat of Rio Arriba County, and the 2020 census counted 297 people here. Its name is Spanish for "Yellow Earth," after the clay of the Chama River Valley that Native American peoples used, and the Tewa and Navajo names for the place also point to that yellow clay. Spanish friars crossed this ground in 1776 and wrote that it would suit grazing and farming, and the route they took between Santa Fe and California later came to be known as the Spanish Trail.
In 1832 the Mexican government granted the land to Manuel Martinez and settlers from Abiquiu, but raids by Utes, Navajos and Jicarilla Apaches kept them from staying for good until the early 1860s. Las Nutrias was founded about 1862, and in 1866 the Army set up Camp Plummer nearby to guard the settlements from the Southern Utes. The camp was abandoned in 1869, and in 1880 the territorial legislature made Las Nutrias the county seat and renamed it Tierra Amarilla.
“the center of the Mexican population of northwestern New Mexico”
- A grant lost to speculatorsCongress confirmed the land grant in 1860, but as a private grant instead of a community one, because documents had been mistranslated and hidden. Some of Martinez's heirs then sold land to Anglo speculators, and by 1883 Thomas Catron held the deeds to the entire grant apart from the first villages and their fields. Descendants of the first grant holders went to court in 1950 to win back the communal land, but their petitions were denied.
- The railroad reaches ChamaThe Denver and Rio Grande Railway bought land from Catron in 1880, part of the grant, for its San Juan line and for a service town at Chama. The trains arrived there, about ten miles north, in 1881, and they pulled the region out of its long economic and cultural isolation.
- A courthouse from 1917Once the village became the county seat, its people built a courthouse. That first building was later torn down to make room for the present one, a neoclassical courthouse designed by Isaac Rapp and completed in 1917.
- The 1967 courthouse raidIn 1967 Reies Tijerina led the Alianza Federal de Mercedes into the courthouse, planning a citizen's arrest of the district attorney and hoping to expose how Hispanic land grant properties had been taken. Shooting broke out. Prison guard Eulogio Salazar was shot, and deputy Daniel Rivera was badly hurt. Tijerina's group fled south with two hostages, but state police, the FBI and the National Guard caught him, and he was sentenced to less than three years.
Keep exploring New Mexico
Tierra Amarilla is one of 544 New Mexico towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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Near Tierra Amarilla
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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