Springerville carries the name of an Albuquerque storekeeper who was invited to bring his business to Round Valley. This map of Springerville prints Becker Lake, the Springerville Post Office, the Round Valley Senior Center, the Springerville Heritage Center & Casa Malpais Archaeological Museum and the White Mountain Regional Medical Center.
Springerville is a town in Apache County, in the White Mountains close to the New Mexico border.
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. The town sits at 6,907 feet above sea level, and in Navajo it’s called Tsé Noodǫ́ǫ́z. With its neighbor Eagar it makes up the place known as Round Valley, and the 2020 census counted 1,717 people in Springerville.
Henry Springer’s store
Before it was Springerville, the settlement went by names such as Colorado Chiquito, Milligan Settlement and Valle Redondo, Spanish for Round Valley. James G. H. Colter, who said he had Apache County separated from Yavapai, remembered hauling goods from Henry Springer’s store in Albuquerque and telling Springer he’d better come into Round Valley and put in a store, since people were coming in and they would name the post office and the little village after him. The town that grew around Springer’s trading post was officially given his name on May 10, 1876. The first Springerville School House was dedicated on September 3, 1884, and the town was incorporated in 1948.
On September 29, 1928, Springerville unveiled Arizona’s Madonna of the Trail, one of 12 identical monuments to pioneer women that the Daughters of the American Revolution placed along the National Old Trails Road, from Maryland to California. Each statue, by the sculptor August Leimbach, stands 10 feet tall and weighs 5 tons. The El Rio opened in 1915 as the Apache Theater and took its present name in 1937; the town’s page calls it the oldest movie theater in Arizona. In 1951 Twentieth Century Fox filmed Return of the Texan, from Fred Gipson’s novel The Home Place, at several locations in and around town.
An ancestral pueblo on the lava
Casa Malpaís, an ancestral pueblo near Springerville, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Its builders raised it in the 1200s on terraces in front of basalt cliffs formed by an old lava flow, with a Great Kiva of volcanic rock at its center, a steep basalt staircase set into a crevice of the cliff, and a solar calendar whose gates let a shaft of light in at the solstices. Both the Hopi and Zuni peoples still consider it a sacred ancestral place. The Casa Malpais Visitor Center and Museum, run by the town on Main Street, displays artifacts from the site and starts its guided tours there. More than 400 volcanoes lie within 50 miles of Springerville in the Springerville volcanic field, the third-largest such field in the continental United States.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: Becker Lake Rd, Hwy 260, W Airport Rd, Airport Rd, W Main, N Becker Lake Rd, Main St, Maracopa Dr, Old Hwy 60, S Mountain Ave, S Coconino St, Haynes Dr.
More street names, A to Z
Chiricahua Trl, Crystal Ln, E Becker Ln, Fain St, Fourth Ave, Rogers Ranch Rd, S River Rd, Third Ave.
Around the map
Becker Lake was built around 1880 and is one of the oldest reservoirs in the White Mountains. Gustav and Julius Becker first dammed it, and it carries their name. The Arizona Game and Fish Department bought the lake and the land around it in 1973, and today it’s managed as a trophy trout lake, 107 acres on a diversion of the Little Colorado River inside the 622-acre Becker Lake Wildlife Area, with two hiking trails. Billie Maxwell, who grew up in nearby Nutrioso, recorded for Victor in El Paso in July 1929 with her father’s White Mountain Orchestra and on her own, which made her part of the first recorded country music act in Arizona and the state’s first recorded female country singer. The town’s notable people include the football player Mark Gastineau and the historian of the Southwest Jerry D. Thompson, who was born here. The Springerville/Eagar Center Library, the Springerville Post Office, the Round Valley Senior Center and the White Mountain Regional Medical Center have their places on the sheet.
This Springerville 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 Springerville home, in Round Valley, 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 Springerville map.
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