Surprise started in 1938 as a one-square-mile parcel with a few houses and a gas station on it, and it has grown enormously since. This map of Surprise prints Surprise Stadium, the Asante Library, Asante Community Park, Willow Canyon High School, Shadow Ridge High School and The Vista Center for the Arts, from Pueblo Village out to Apache Village, with the North Fork Lower El Mirage Wash, Padelford Wash and Picacho Wash giving shape to the land.
Surprise is a city in Maricopa County, served by Loop 303 and U.S. Route 60.
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 2020 census counted 143,148 people in Surprise, up from 117,517 in 2010 and 30,848 in 2000.
Flora Mae Statler’s surprise
Surprise was founded in 1938 by Flora Mae Statler, the daughter of the Arizona pioneer Charles Gillett, who helped found Glendale. For years city officials believed her husband, the real estate developer and state legislator Homer C. Ludden, was the founder, but in 2010 property records turned up showing that Statler owned the land before she met him. The name has two stories. Modern records often say Statler called her land Surprise because she “would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much,” and her daughter backed that account; others point out that pioneers often named settlements after their home towns, and Ludden came from Surprise, Nebraska.
The land was subdivided to build inexpensive houses for agricultural workers. Its original townsite is bounded by Greenway Road on the south, El Mirage Road on the east, Bell Road on the north and Dysart Road on the west. Surprise incorporated as a city in 1960. City Hall stands on the site of Luke Air Force Base’s old auxiliary airfield No. 3, and the outline of its runways can still be seen in aerial photos.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Streets and roads: W Irvine Rd, W Joy Ranch Rd, W Maddock Rd, W Black Mountain Rd, W Cloud Rd, W Galvin St, W Ocupado Dr, W Myers St, W Lone Mountain Rd, E Montgomery, W Laurel, W Baker Dr.
More street names, A to Z
23rd Dr, 33rd Ave, 81st Ave, 163rd Ave, 179th Ave, 187th Ave, 191st Ave, 243rd Ave, Bajada Dr, Cale Dr, Chama Dr, Crozier Rd, E Bonita St, Garden Ln, Greenway Rd, Hope Dr, John Rd, Maddock Rd, Mark Ln, Mirage Rd, Montgomery Rd, Morristown New River Hwy, N 142nd Ln, N 161st Ave, N 183rd Ave, N 203rd Ave, N Grand Ave, N Picacho Wash, N Quintero Ln, N Tower Rd, Phoenix-Wickenburg Hwy, Pinnacle Peak Rd, Reems Rd, Sky Dr, Spring Rd, Sun Valley Pkwy, Union Hills Rd, View Rd, W 179th Ave, W Beardsley Rd, W Blackstone Dr, W Bradley Rd, W Bunker Peak Rd, W Carefree Hwy, W Christy Dr, W Deer Valley Rd, W Dixileta Dr, W Dove Valley Rd, W Duane Ln, W Dynamite Blvd, Weir Rd, W Foothill Dr, W Happy Valley Rd, W Ida Ln, W Jomax Rd, W Landfill, W Monona Dr, W Patrick Ln, W Peakview Rd, W Pinnacle Peak Rd, W San Ysidro Rd, W Soledad St, W Sweetwater Ave, W Union Hills Dr, W White Brush Ct, W Whitewing Rd, W Williams Rd, W Yorkshire Dr.
Ballpark, library and schools
Surprise Stadium opened in 2002 on the city’s Recreation Campus and seats 10,714. It’s the spring training home of the Kansas City Royals and the Texas Rangers and the home of the Arizona Fall League’s Surprise Saguaros. The Recreation Campus also holds the Surprise Regional Library, Surprise Community Park with its fishing lake, and a tennis and racquet complex. The city has two other library branches, the Hollyhock Branch in the original townsite and the Asante Branch in north Surprise, and on July 1, 2023, the city took over the three Maricopa County libraries within its borders to create the Surprise Public Library system. Willow Canyon High School opened in 2003 in the Dysart Unified School District, which serves most of the city, and offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma; Arianna Romero, who went on to play for the Mexico women’s national football team, graduated from it in 2010. Public art installations stand across the city, many made with the WHAM community art center. Shadow Ridge High School, The Vista Center for the Arts, Pueblo Village, Apache Village and the three washes have their places on the sheet as well.
This Surprise 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 Surprise home, 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 Surprise map.
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