Explore Adrian, 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 Adrian, 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 Adrian.
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 | Adrian |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Oldham County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.274778 |
| Longitude | -102.665211 |
| Population | 128 |
| Density | 105.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 79001 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| County Seat | Vega |
| School District | Adrian Independent School District |
Adrian occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon stretches indefinitely across the high plains of the Texas Panhandle. It lies 35.2 miles north-northwest of Hereford, TX (from Hereford, TX: bearing 335°T), and is situated 34.4 miles west of Bushland. The landscape surrounding Adrian remains defined by the subtle, persistent erosion of Pigpen Draw and the steady, arid winds that carry the scent of dry earth and cured grasses. To the southeast, the terrain dips toward the path of Las Arches Creek, a thin ribbon of moisture that serves as a quiet witness to the shifting seasons. The light here possesses a singular, crystalline intensity, turning the grasses to pale gold in the late afternoon and casting long, sharp shadows that seem to anchor the soil to the very rotation of the earth.
Adrian emerged as a vital point of transit along the historic path that once tied the country together, its economy historically tethered to the movement of goods and the endurance of those traversing the open plains. The nearby Canadian River Cattle Ranch underscores the region’s deep-seated reliance on the land, where the rhythms of agriculture and livestock management dictate the pace of daily life. While the distant silhouette of Torrey Peak looms as a faint, jagged suggestion against the western sky, the character of Adrian remains firmly grounded in its isolation, far from the influence of Red Lake or any distant, humid waters. The quietude of the plains settles over the buildings, a stillness that is less a absence of sound and more a heavy, profound presence of space.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Adrian, Texas. Coordinates: 35.274778, -102.665211. 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 Adrian includes the ZIP code (79001), telephone area code (806), county seat of Oldham County (Vega), and school district assignment (Adrian 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. |