Gilbert is the most populous incorporated town in the United States, and people have called it the largest town in America. This map prints HD SOUTH, the Gilbert Community Center, Perry Library, Highland High School, Mesquite High School and Campo Verde High School, with the streets reaching from Sunview out to Gilbert Ranch and Sonoqui Wash and Queen Creek shaping the land.
Gilbert is a town in Maricopa County, southeast of Phoenix, with Mesa to the north and Chandler to the southwest.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded relief of the landscape comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. HD SOUTH was checked against National Park Service and National Register of Historic Places records. The town covers 68.86 square miles, and 267,918 people lived here at the 2020 census.
The Hay Shipping Capital
The town takes its name from William “Bobby” Gilbert, who gave land to the Arizona Eastern Railway in 1902 for a line between Phoenix and Florence. Ayer’s Grocery Store, Gilbert’s first store, opened in 1910 and took in the first post office in 1912. The post office moved several times before it settled on the east side of Gilbert Road downtown, where it still stands. Also in 1912, Mormon families who had fled the church’s colonies in Mexico to escape Pancho Villa’s forces settled here. By 1915 they were meeting at the Gilbert Elementary School, and in 1918 they became the Gilbert Ward.
Gilbert incorporated on July 6, 1920, as a farm town. The railroad, Roosevelt Dam and the Eastern and Consolidated Canals fed its fields, and it stayed an agricultural town for many years, once known as the “Hay Shipping Capital of the World.” The Gilbert Elementary School, built in 1913, is on the National Register of Historic Places and now holds the Gilbert Historical Museum.
A town that grew
Between 2000 and 2010 Gilbert was the fastest-growing incorporated place of 100,000 or more people in the country, growing by 90%. It’s still a town, not a city, which gives it fewer powers than Mesa and Chandler next door. The Gilbert Arizona Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated on March 2, 2014. It stands 195 feet tall with its angel Moroni statue, on 15.4 acres at Greenfield and Pecos Roads, and its design uses interlinked agave leaves as a symbol of the eternal nature of marriage and family. Twelve thousand church members took part in a cultural celebration at Discovery Park for the dedication.
At Gilbert Town Hall, a 9/11 memorial holds an eight-foot steel beam that once held up the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Former Fire Chief Collin DeWitt raised money for three years to build it and drove to New York to collect the beam himself with Assistant Fire Chief Jim Jobusch. The beam is angled so everyone can reach it, four granite walls carry the names of those killed in the attacks, and the foundation was poured in the shape of a pentagon. It was unveiled on September 11, 2011. Gilbert’s fire department was also the first in Arizona to put an electric fire engine to work, and Eduprize in Gilbert was the first charter school in Arizona.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: E Palomino Dr, E Tremaine Ave, E Silo Dr, E Austin Dr, E Bloomfield Pkwy, E Spring Wheat Ln, Inverness Ave, Weather Vane Rd, Ranch Rd, E Still Cir, E Rivulon Blvd, E Kingbird Pl.
More street names, A to Z
Belltower Dr, Chandler Heights Rd, E Athena Ave, E Aviation Dr, E Blue Ridge Way, E Blue Spruce Ln, E Canary Dr, E Cherry Hill Dr, E Cherry Hills Pl, E Clifton Ave, E Cloud Rd, E County Down Dr, E Cynthia St, E Eleana Ln, E Evelyn St, E Gemini Pl, E Germann Rd, E Haskell St, E Hunt Hwy, E Jones St, E Nolan Pl, E Parkview Dr, E Spur Rd, E Stacey Rd, E Warner Rd, Ewers Dr, Geronimo Ct, Hamilton St, Happy Rd, Horseshoe Dr, Lovebird Ln, Melrose St, Motorplex Loop, Ocotillo Rd, Pecos Rd, Queen Creek Rd, Ray Rd, Rte 131, S Bluejay Dr.
Hawks, Wildcats and Coyotes
Highland High School opened in 1992, and its students are the Highland Hawks. The Highland marching band has played the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and in 2009 it became the first band ever to win the ABODA Division 1 state marching band championship. Its concert choir sang at Carnegie Hall in 2007. The gymnast Alex Naddour, who won bronze on the pommel horse at the 2016 Summer Olympics, graduated from Highland in 2009.
Mesquite High School opened in August 1998, and its teams are the Wildcats. The violinist and dancer Lindsey Stirling graduated from Mesquite in 2004; she started her YouTube channel in 2007, reached the quarter-finals of America’s Got Talent in 2010, and took her album Shatter Me to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2014. The ESPN journalist Mina Kimes graduated from Mesquite in 2003. Campo Verde High School opened in the fall of 2009, and its teams are the Coyotes. Its name is Spanish for “green field,” a nod to the role Spanish-speaking people played in building Gilbert. The astronaut Christina Birch grew up in Gilbert, raced for the US track cycling team, and was named a NASA astronaut candidate in 2021.
The Gilbert Community Center and Perry Library have their places on the sheet, and so does HD SOUTH. Look for Sunview and Gilbert Ranch at either end of the town’s streets, and for Sonoqui Wash and Queen Creek in the shaded land.
This Gilbert 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 Gilbert home, and KNOWOL created it in 2026 to show the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Gilbert map.
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