San Tan Valley, made a town in 2025, is one of the most recently incorporated places in the country, and it takes its name from the nearby San Tan Mountains. This map of San Tan Valley prints the San Tan Valley Library, Combs Traditional Academy, Poston Butte High School, San Tan Foothills High School, the Copper Basin YMCA and Goldmine Mountain, from Magma out to Circle Cross Ranch, with Rock Peak, Queen Creek and the Central Arizona Project Canal giving shape to the land.
San Tan Valley is a town in northern Pinal County, between Queen Creek and Florence.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 and gave modern data the look of a vintage atlas. The shaded relief of Goldmine Mountain and Rock Peak comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data, and the streets were drawn from Census Bureau files. The town lies east of the San Tan Mountains in the Sonoran Desert, with San Tan Mountain Regional Park on the west and the Gila River Indian Community to the southwest.
A name by popular vote
Before 2000 this was mostly open desert and farmland. Then the houses came, in planned communities such as Pecan Creek South, San Tan Heights, Archer Meadows and Johnson Ranch, and by the 2020 census 99,894 people lived here. For years the area had no official name. People called it San Tan Heights, San Tan Foothills, Greater San Tan or just the San Tan Area, and they used Queen Creek for their mailing addresses, which caused confusion because the Town of Queen Creek is mostly in Maricopa County. When the community was getting its own ZIP code, on July 1, 2009, the Postal Service was asked to give the area a new name. “Bella Vista” was submitted first and drew the ire of some residents, so the Greater San Tan Area Coalition held a non-binding vote on June 23, and an informal public poll commissioned by Pinal County Supervisor Bryan Martyn settled on San Tan Valley, after the mountains nearby.
Incorporation took longer. Efforts began as early as 2004, a 2005 try failed to gain traction, and in 2010 the Town Council of Florence rejected the proposed boundaries. In 2025 residents filed a new petition, voters approved incorporation on August 5, and on September 17, 2025, the Pinal County government formally declared the town.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Pecos Rd, E Haddington St, E Germann Rd, E Swan Dr, E Oriole Way, E Canary Way, E Reins Rd, E Mayberry Rd, Queen Creek Rd, E Saddle Way, E Bonanza Way, E Russet Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Allen Rd, Arizona Ave, Callaway Rd, Crismon Rd, E Acre Way, E Arizona Farms Rd, E Bella Vista Rd, E Chandler Heights Rd, E Chapo Rd, E Cloud Rd, E Combs Rd, E Diana Way, E Empire Blvd, E Escalante Rd, E Gamebird Way, E Grange Pkwy, E Hash Knife Draw Rd, E Hera Rd, E Judd Rd, E Lake Rd, E Pummelos Rd, E Ranch Rd, E Renfroe Way, E Riggs Rd, E Rittenhouse Rd, E Roberts Rd, E Rolling Ridge Rd, E Rolls Rd, E Ryan Rd, E Silver, E Skyline Dr, E Stagecoach Pass Ave, E Surgey Ln, Eucalyptus Ln, E Wild Turkey Dr, Goldmine Mountain Rd, Gordon St, Granada Ln, Homestead Ln, Hunt Hwy, Judd Rd, Merrill Rd, N Drifter Pass Rd, N Geode Way, N Hazel Ln, N Hunt Hwy, N Judys Rd, N Meridian Rd, N Moeur Rd, N Spring Valley Pkwy, N Vineyard Rd, Olberg Rd, Parkside Dr, Peace Pl, Phillips Dr, Quick Draw Ln, Rock Rd, S Cherrywood, Sherry Ln, Titsworth Rd, W Adobe Dam Dr, W Alexis Ln, W Bonnie Ln, W Butte Creek Blvd, W Combs Rd, W Dixie Rd, W Gail Rd, W Germann Rd, W Hunt Hwy, W Josephine Rd, W Lamar St, W Lind Rd, W Locklin Ave, W Magma Rd, W Olberg Rd, W Olivia Dr, W Phillips Rd, W Rhea Rd, W Roberts Rd, W Rolls Rd, W Silverdale Rd, W Wilma Rd.
Goldmine Mountain and the old man
San Tan Mountain Regional Park covers more than 10,000 acres of the San Tan Mountains, with Goldmine Mountain in its northern section. Rockpile fields left by the Hohokam between about 1100 and 1450 show they farmed here, most likely growing agave, yucca and cholla. In 1948 two prospectors, Mansel Carter, from Ohio, and Marion Kennedy, an American Indian from Oklahoma, moved into the area and lived in a cave near the foot of Goldmine Mountain before building a shanty outside it. They mined small claims for copper, silver, turquoise and gold and filed 55 claims, which Carter’s heirs still own. After Kennedy died in 1960, Carter kept mining and began whittling figures from local wood and cactus skeletons, and people called him the “Old Man of the Mountain.” The park opened in 1986, and today its Goldmine Trail runs 2.5 miles, and there’s a trailhead at Rock Peak Wash as well.
Around the map
Magma is printed on this map. The Magma Arizona Railroad met the Southern Pacific main line there, between Florence and Queen Creek. Built by the Magma Copper Company, the line ran from 1915 to 1997, hauling cattle and copper on 30.2 miles of track, and it was the last industrial short line railroad in the United States to use steam power, switching to diesel on September 4, 1968. The Central Arizona Project Canal is part of a 336-mile canal that carries Colorado River water from Lake Havasu, near Parker, into central and southern Arizona. Poston Butte High School opened on July 20, 2009, and gives every student a laptop in place of textbooks; its first class of 253 graduated on May 30, 2012. San Tan Foothills High School also opened in 2009, and after the Florence Unified School District took it over in 2016 its enrollment grew from 400 to more than 900 by 2020. The San Tan Valley Library, Combs Traditional Academy, the Copper Basin YMCA, Circle Cross Ranch and Queen Creek are on the sheet too.
This San Tan Valley map makes 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 San Tan Valley home, below the San Tan Mountains, 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 San Tan Valley map.
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