Geography
Grants is located at 35°9′19″N 107°50′32″W / 35.15528°N 107.84222°W / 35.15528; -107.84222 (35.155269, -107.842099).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.7 square miles (35 km2), all of it land. Grants is on the north end of the large and recent (youngest flows around 3,000 years old) lava field known as "El Malpais" (the badlands), part of which is preserved as El Malpais National Monument. To the northeast of town are the San Mateo Mountains and Mount Taylor, at 11,301 feet the highest peak in the region. West of the city is the Continental Divide and the Zuni Mountains, an eroded anticline with 2 billion year old Precambrian granites and metamorphic rocks at its core. The region is primarily high desert country, dominated by sandstones and lava flows.
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