Queen Creek was a farm stop on a rail line before it was a town, and its old brick schoolhouse still stands at the corner of Ellsworth and Queen Creek roads. This map of Queen Creek prints that school, Old Rittenhouse Elementary School, along with the Queen Creek Library, Benjamin Franklin High School, Newell Barney College Prep, Sossaman Middle School and the Queen Creek Olive Mill, from Sanokai Village out to Hastings Farms.
Queen Creek is a town mostly in Maricopa County and partly in Pinal County.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave modern data the look of a vintage atlas. The shaded relief of the landscape comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. Old Rittenhouse Elementary School was confirmed against the National Park Service and the National Register of Historic Places. The town sits in the far southeast corner of the Phoenix area, with Mesa to the north, Gilbert to the west and the 10,200-acre San Tan Mountain Regional Park to the south.
From Rittenhouse to Queen Creek
The town began as Rittenhouse. According to the post office form kept at the National Archives, it grew out of a railroad stop built by C. H. Rittenhouse, who formed the Queen Creek Farms Company in 1919 and needed a place to ship his produce. The stop became a flag stop for travel into Phoenix. In 1947 the residents changed the community’s name to Queen Creek. Queen Creek and Sonoqui Wash are both printed on the map. The creek once flowed through Queen Canyon and was first called Picket Post Creek before it was renamed for the Silver Queen Mine; most of the time it’s a dry arroyo. Queen Creek incorporated on September 5, 1989, and in 2018 it reached into Pinal County when it annexed the Ironwood Crossing neighborhood.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: E Williams Field Rd, Jones St, E Upton Ave, E Pecos Rd, E Haddington St, E Germann Rd, E Macaw Dr, E Ryan Rd, E Mayberry Rd, Azalea Dr, E Victoria Ln, Ocotillo Rd.
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Bella Vista Rd, Crismon Rd, Desert Mountain Pkwy, E Bella Vista Rd, E Brooks Farms Rd, E Cherry Hills Pl, E Cherrywood Dr, E Cloud Rd, E Combs Rd, E Diana Way, E Grange Pkwy, E Happy Rd, E Hash Knife Draw Rd, E Horsethief Gulch Rd, E Indiana Ave, E Judd Rd, E Pima Rd, E Pummelos Rd, E Queen Creek Dr, E Ranch Rd, E Riggs Rd, E Rolling Ridge Rd, E Rosa Rd, E Russet Rd, E Saddle Way, E Skyline Dr, E Southwood Rd, E Stagecoach Pass Ave, E Twin Acres Dr, Gail Rd, Gantzel Rd, Granada Ln, Hazel Ln, Hunt Hwy, Indian Rte 56, Judd Rd, Loop Rd, Meridian Rd, Moeur Rd, N Drifter Pass Rd, N Geode Way, N Vineyard, Parkside Dr, Phillips Dr, Pima Rd, Rosebud Dr, Sagebrush Ave, S Eastmark Pkwy, Skyline Dr, Titsworth Rd, Valley Pkwy, W Allen Rd, W Chandler, W Combs Rd, Westbrooke Rd, W Gail Rd, W German Rd, W Hunt Hwy, Williams Field Rd, W Judd Rd, W Lamar St, W Lind Rd, W Locklin Ave, W Olivia Dr, W Phillips Rd, W Pima Rd, W Rolls Rd, W Silverdale Rd, W Spine Tree Ave, W Sun Dance Dr, W Thunder Cloud Dr.
The Rittenhouse school
The first classes here, from 1920 to 1922, met in a small board-and-batten building that had been a cook shack for workers of G. R. “Gid” Duncan, a partner of land developer Charles Rittenhouse, for whom the school was named. Then came a wooden church, and in 1924 work began on a permanent school: a three-room, U-shaped red brick building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It was finished in 1925 and held its first classes in 1926. At first only English-speaking students attended the new school, while children of Mexican descent were taught English in the old wooden church before joining the main classes. Public Works Administration money added two classrooms and indoor restrooms in 1936 and 1937, and by 1955 the school, now called “Old Main,” was the centerpiece of the community.
Old Main closed in 1982. In 1994 the San Tan Historical Society reached an agreement with the school district to restore it as a museum, and in 1998 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the only historic school building left in Queen Creek. When restorers stripped away layers of paint, they found hundreds of bits of graffiti that former students had etched into the bricks. The original slate chalkboards survive, still holding writing from the last day of classes in 1982, and old playground equipment and antique farm machinery stand on the grounds.
Around town
Six public school districts serve Queen Creek, along with charter schools and a private school, and Sossaman Middle School and Newell Barney College Prep are among them. The Queen Creek Library, Benjamin Franklin High School and the Queen Creek Olive Mill have their places on the sheet too, as do Sanokai Village and Hastings Farms. Quarterback Brock Purdy was born in Queen Creek in 1999. The San Francisco 49ers took him with the last pick of the 2022 NFL draft, and in his second season he led the team to Super Bowl LVIII and earned his first Pro Bowl selection.
This Queen Creek 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 Queen Creek home, from Sanokai Village to Hastings Farms, 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 Queen Creek map.
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