Mapping and Geographic Information System Department

How to use Data Viewer

Search for an address or cross streets using the search box at the top left of the Data Viewer.
Click on the parcel of land to see more information. In the pop-up box, the arrows at the top right allow you to see different layers of information.
If MRGCD has a plat document for the property, the parcel will be gray.
If MRGCD has a survey document for the property, the parcel will have blue hatching on it.
If the parcel is not gray and does not have blue hatching, MRGCD does not have any plats or surveys for the property. The Mapping Department may have a deed that has the metes and bounds that describe the property boundaries. Email the Mapping Department at mapping@mrgcd.us to find out if this is the case.
If you need the drawings showing an MRGCD facility or information on whether a ditch is an MRGCD facility or a private/community ditch, please email the Mapping Department at mapping@mrgcd.us.

The Mapping and GIS Department maintains a repository of all real MRGCD property records. Many of these records are referenced to one of our 189 MRGCD property maps that span from Cochiti Pueblo and Reservoir to San Marcial, north of Elephant Butte.

The Mapping and GIS Department maintains specific information on all of its facility rights-of-way, including Plan and Profile (P&P) sheets, easement records, rehab drawings, tax dockets and deeds. Other current and historic documents are available as well.

Additional Information

Each MRGCD Property Map typically illustrates two square miles of real property records. These maps have been drawn and updated to reflect current property records since 1927.  Early MRGCD property maps are some of the first cadastre maps drawn in New Mexico.

This map collection, and repository for real property records, has tracked all real property changes within the MRGCD jurisdiction in order to protect MRGCD rights-of-way and provide for drainage, irrigation and flood control in the middle Rio Grande valley.  The department houses many of the plats, surveys and deeds used to locate and reference these properties.

Much of the property in the valley was unplatted at the time the MRGCD was formed. In order to appraise the properties, these lands were given unique legal descriptions. A Property Map and tract number was associated to each unplatted parcel. These MRGCD Map and Tract designations are still found throughout the valley as a part of the legal descriptions on current plats and deeds.

Name Title Phone
Tim Pitts GIS Manager 505-247-0234 ext. 1356
Juliana Daggett Senior GIS Analyst 505-247-0234 ext. 1368
Alicia Hans GIS/Mapping Technician 505-247-0234 ext. 1310
Arturo Rios GIS/Mapping Technician 505-247-0234 ext. 1352
Mitch Georgina GIS Tech II / Drone Operator 505-247-0234 ext. 1338

GIS (Geographic Information System) Staff are responsible for the preservation and continuation of Mapping and GIS Department records. Since 2000, the MRGCD property maps have been maintained as a Cadastral layer using Esri ArcGIS software. Staff statutorily collaborates with the offices of the County Clerk and the County Assessor in each of the four counties that fall within the jurisdiction of the District in order to access the most current property and ownership information. Links to these counties are here:

Available Records by Request

The MRGCD is not responsible for and does not maintain records of water rights. For water rights questions and issues, please contact the Office of the State Engineer at https://www.ose.nm.gov/.
Please check the Data Viewer first. The easiest way to request records not available in the Data Viewer is to send an email detailing the desired records to mapping@mrgcd.us. Most responses will be within 24 hours, however, please allow adequate time for extensive research requests so staff can conduct a thorough search.

  • MRGCD Maps for the following years: 1927, 1940, 1976, and 1997
  • MRGCD property revision records
  • Recorded/unrecorded plats, boundary surveys
  • Irrigation history records
  • MRGCD Appraisal records for 1927 and 1940
  • And other historic documents

 

GIS Data

You will need GIS software or similar mapping software that can open the shapefile format of the data (.shp).

Download Esri Shapefile format data. Shapefiles come with projection files and XML metadata.