Eloy calls itself the skydiving capital of the world. Skydive Arizona is printed on this map with Curiel Primary School, Eloy Junior High School, Santa Cruz Valley Union High School, the Eloy Aquatic Center and the Troy Thomas Community Center, and the Toltec Buttes, the Santa Cruz River and the Santa Rosa Canal shape the land around them.
Eloy is a city in Pinal County, about 50 miles northwest of Tucson and about 65 miles southeast of Phoenix.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the Toltec Buttes comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The city covers 113.7 square miles, all of it land, and it had 15,635 people at the 2020 census.
East Line of Yuma
Eloy began with a handful of boxcars. In 1880, while the Southern Pacific Railroad was laying track for its Sunset Route, a few boxcars here served as a camp for the railroad workers, and it was found that cotton would grow in this climate. In 1902 the railroad named the stop Eloy, from the first letters of “East Line Of Yuma.” A legend gives another story: that the place was first called Eloi, from the words a railroad worker spoke as he looked out over the bare desert. A town called Cotton City was started in 1918, but when the post office opened the next year it turned that name down in favor of Eloy. The city incorporated in 1949.
In 1955 Eloy was the town featured in an episode of the police drama The Man Behind the Badge. The episode was called “The Case of the Wild West,” and it first aired on Saturday, May 14, 1955.
The skydiving capital
The city’s page says Eloy is home to the world’s largest skydive drop zone, run by Skydive Arizona, and Eloy bills itself as the skydiving capital of the world. Two parachute makers, Firebird USA and Sun Path Products, are based here, and the professional skydiver Jeff Provenzano is among the city’s notable people. The city also has the Robson Ranch Golf Club, with an 18-hole, par-72 course, and the non-towered Eloy Municipal Airport.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: E Casa Bonita Rd, E Florence Blvd, Casa Grande la Palma Hwy, E Earley Rd, W Earley Rd, Early Rd, Earley Rd, E Selma Hwy, E Grogan Ave, E Mopar Dr, Hanna St, W Acoma Ave.
More street names, A to Z
Arizona Western Blvd, Aztec Dr, Barrel Rd, Cabra Way, Carter Ln, Casa Grande-Picacho Hwy, Coahuila St, Coolidge Ave, Cornman Rd, Cortaro Dr, Cox Rd, Creek Dr, Curiel St, Dusty Ln, E Alsdorf Rd, E Arica Rd, E Arizona Western Blvd, E Cameo Rd, E Date St, E Early Rd, E Flagstaff Rd, E Grace Dr, E Hanna Rd, E Harmon Rd, E Hauser Rd, E Houser Rd, E Laughlin Rd, E Milligan Rd, E Phillips Rd, E Picacho Blvd, E Pretzer Rd, E Progress St, E Saddleback Rd, E Salazar Rd, E Shasta St, E Shay Rd, E Shedd Rd, E Steele Rd, Fowler St, Gold Dust Rd, Hano Rd, Holts Rd, Hotts Rd, Juniper Dr, Kenyon Rd, McClelland Rd, Milligan Rd, N Start Rd, N Tumbleweed Rd, N Zapotec Ave, Old Rd, Overfield Rd, Pantano Valley Rd, Park Dr, Peart Rd, Pretzer Rd, Santa Cruz, S Arizona Blvd, S Burton Ave, S Carter Ln, S Citrus Heights Dr, S Fast Track Rd, S Isom Rd, Sommerfield Rd, S Picacho Hwy, S Toltec Hwy, S Vail Rd, Vail Rd, Vista Rd, W Acoma St, W Adams Rd, W Aguila Dr, W Arica Rd, W Aztec Rd, W Boxelder Dr, W Buckaroo Ln, W Casa Bonita Rd, W Chambers St, W Chiricahua St, W Coolidge Ave, W Cornman Rd, W David Ln, W Eames Rd, W George Dr, W Hanna Rd, W Harmon Rd, W Hotts Rd, W Houser Rd, W Jewel Rd, W Kenyon Rd, W Lewis St, W Loki Ln, W Milligan Rd, W Nugget Rd, W Phillips Rd, W Provo Rd, W Shay Rd, W Shedd Rd, W Tonto Rd, W Walnut Dr, W Xavier Dr, Yola Dr.
Schools and hometown names
The Eloy Elementary School District runs four schools: Curiel Primary School for kindergarten through third grade, Eloy Intermediate School for fourth through sixth, Eloy Junior High School for seventh and eighth, and Toltec Elementary School for fourth through eighth. Santa Cruz Valley Union High School is the city’s one public high school.
Anna Maria Chávez was born in 1968 in the small farm town of Eloy, and she joined the Girl Scouts as a child. She went on to Yale and law school, worked for the governor of Arizona, and from 2011 to 2016 she was chief executive of the Girl Scouts of the USA, the first woman of color to lead the organization. The football players Mossy Cade, Levi Jones, Art Malone and Benny Malone are on Eloy’s list of notable people too, with the baseball players Ricky Nelson and Paul Powell.
The river and the peak
The Santa Cruz River, Spanish for “Holy Cross River,” runs about 184 miles from the San Rafael Valley, on a loop through Mexico and then north past Tucson, Marana and Picacho Peak State Park, to the Santa Cruz Flats south of Casa Grande. Most of the river is usually a dry bed unless the area gets significant rain. Picacho Peak State Park is about 10 miles southeast of Eloy. Its summit rises to 3,374 feet, the park is known for wildflowers from mid-February to early April after good winter rain, and every March the park reenacts the Civil War skirmish at Picacho Pass. Toltec, Robson Ranch and the Santa Rosa Canal round out the map.
This Eloy 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 Eloy home, from Toltec out to Robson Ranch, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the city as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Eloy map.
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