Every Veterans Day at 11:11 in the morning, the sun shines through the five white pillars of the Anthem Veterans Memorial and lights up the Great Seal of the United States. This map of Anthem prints the Anthem Civic Building, Anthem School, Diamond Canyon Elementary, the Anthem Dog Park and Liberty Bell Park, with Deadman Wash and Anthem Lakes running through the neighborhoods.
Anthem is in Maricopa County, in the foothills about 30 miles north of downtown Phoenix.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the foothills comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. Anthem is built on 5,856 acres at the base of Daisy Mountain and Gavilan Peak, and the ground rises from 1,760 feet to 2,428 feet, with an average of 1,863 feet. About 36 percent of the community is kept as open space, including 291 acres of open hillside. Anthem had 23,190 people at the 2020 census.
A planned community
Del Webb developed Anthem in 1998 as a master-planned community, and it first appeared on the census in 2010. It’s made up of three main subdivisions, Parkside, Country Club and the Village, each with its own homeowners association, and together they elect the seven members of the Anthem Community Council board. There are more than 20 neighborhoods, among them Jubilation, Inspiration and Arroyo Grande. Interstate 17 runs through town: the part east of the freeway is served by Maricopa County and the Daisy Mountain Fire Department, and the western part lies inside the Phoenix city limits. The New River community borders Anthem on the north, east and south.
The town page says Anthem is best known for year-round activities built around families. The community center runs youth soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis, martial arts and swimming for children as young as toddlers, and in recent years it added 14 outdoor courts set aside for pickleball. Homeowner dues cover a pool larger than Olympic size, a water park with slides, paths that crisscross the town, bike paths along every major street, and small pocket parks. There’s also a 63-acre community park with an amphitheater, ball fields, a train, a pavilion, lakes and pagodas. Parenting magazine has named Anthem one of the best places to raise a family, and Phoenix Magazine has called it one of the best family-friendly neighborhoods in the Phoenix area.
Five pillars
The Anthem Veterans Memorial honors the service and sacrifice of the members of the United States Armed Forces. Its five white pillars stand for the military branches and are set in the Department of Defense order of precedence. Each one has an oval opening that slants down toward the Great Seal, and the design lets the sun’s rays fall on the seal at exactly 11:11 on November 11. Each holiday season the Anthem Christmas tree goes up at the Outlets North Phoenix, and the town page describes it as the tallest fresh-cut tree in the state, hung with thousands of ornaments and 10,000 LED lights under a three-foot copper star.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Teresa Ln, W Arroyo Norte Dr, W Anthem Club Dr, Frontage Rd, N Black Canyon Hwy, Mountain Dr, W Cavalry Rd, W Honda Bow Rd, 13th Ave, Tanya Trl, Memorial Dr, Mountain Ct.
More street names, A to Z
33rd Ave, 131st Ave, Canyon Cir, Carlise Rd, Cindy Cir, Hidden Valley Rd, N Anthem Hills Dr, N Gavilan Peak Pkwy, Saber Rd, Seventh Ave, Valley View Trl, W Adamanda Ct, W Carlise Rd, W Desert Hills Dr, W Desert Ranch Rd, W Hidden Valley Dr, W Irvine Rd, W Jordan Ln, W Joy Ranch Rd, W Maddock Rd, W Meridian Rd, W Pioneer Rd, W Tamar Rd.
Under Daisy Mountain
Gavilan Peak, north of Anthem, got its name in the 1880s, when the United States Cavalry and the Apaches fought a battle in the area; the name means “sparrow hawk” in Spanish. Its page says the peak is steep and climbed much less often than Daisy Mountain, to its southeast. The Daisy Mountain Potential Preserve, six square miles of undeveloped state trust land around Anthem and its neighbors, is open to hikers, riders, photographers, cyclists and birders who carry a state recreation permit.
Anthem School and Diamond Canyon Elementary are printed on the map. Both are kindergarten through eighth grade schools in the Deer Valley Unified School District. Great Hearts Academies – Anthem Prep, a charter school for kindergarten through 12th grade, appears as well. The Anthem Civic Building, the Anthem Dog Park, Liberty Bell Park, Deadman Wash and Anthem Lakes are printed too. A frontage road along the east side of Interstate 17, opened in October 2009, links Gavilan Peak Parkway in Anthem with Carefree Highway in North Gateway.
This Anthem map is a good addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the area. It’s made for anyone who calls Anthem home, from Liberty Bell Park to the banks of Deadman Wash, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the community as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Anthem map.
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