Explore Acala, Texas, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Acala, Texas. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Texas or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Acala.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Acala |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Hudspeth County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 31.334406 |
| Longitude | -105.902786 |
| Population | 11 |
| Density | 1.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 79839 |
| Area Code | 915 |
| County Seat | Sierra Blanca |
| School District | Fort Hancock Independent School District |
Acala endures as a quiet expanse of sun-bleached earth where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a relentless, pale sky. It lies 27.3 miles southeast of San Elizario, TX (from San Elizario, TX: bearing 129°T), and is situated 18.5 miles southeast of Fabens. The land here slopes away from the Rio Grande, which carves a vein of darker green through the arid dust just a mile from the center of Acala. To the west, the silhouette of Campo Grande Mountain rises like a jagged interruption against the twilight, while the nearby depressions of Alamo Arroyo hold the dry, brittle remnants of seasonal rain. The air possesses a crystalline clarity that makes the distant, scrub-covered plains seem close enough to touch, especially during those long, quiet hours when the light turns the color of parched wheat and deepens the shadows of the creosote bushes.
Acala traces its rhythm to the stubborn necessities of agriculture and the patient labor of those who have long worked the surrounding fields. Economic life remains tethered to the soil, reflecting a history shaped by the slow, deliberate cultivation of the desert floor. When the demands of the harvest allow, residents might travel toward the Soil Conservation Service Site 3 Reservoir, where the stillness of the water offers a stark contrast to the heat-shimmered rows of crops. Life moves with an unhurried, measured pace, influenced by the shared heritage of the border country and the practical wisdom required to inhabit such a demanding climate. Far from the distractions of more crowded places, the people of Acala maintain a connection to the land that is as sparse and enduring as the landscape itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Acala, Texas. Coordinates: 31.334406, -105.902786. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Acala includes the ZIP code (79839), telephone area code (915), county seat of Hudspeth County (Sierra Blanca), and school district assignment (Fort Hancock Independent School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |