Agua Dulce Texas Map

About Agua Dulce, Texas

Agua Dulce is a locality in Nueces County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 685. The population density is 775.6 people per km². Agua Dulce is located at 27.7817°N, 97.9086°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Agua Dulce is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 78330, 79928.

Agua Dulce stretches across a vast, sun-bleached expanse of South Texas brush country where the horizon line remains unbroken by anything save for the occasional fence post or distant, solitary mesquite tree. It lies 10.1 miles east-northeast of Alice, TX (from Alice, TX: bearing 78°T), and is situated 18.6 miles north of Kingsville. The earth here is a palette of dusty ochre and deep loam, supporting a sparse, hardy flora that thrives under an unrelenting sun. Three miles to the north, the winding, intermittent flow of Pintas Creek carves a shallow, verdant vein through the arid terrain, providing a brief respite of riparian shade amidst the flat, expansive plains. Far to the northwest, the faint, hazy silhouettes of the Carmel Hills suggest a boundary to the world beyond, yet the immediate landscape of Agua Dulce is defined by its own quiet, horizontal immensity and the way the late afternoon light turns the dry grasses into a shimmering field of pale straw.

Agua Dulce carries the weight of a long-standing agricultural heritage, where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the cultivation of the soil and the tending of livestock. While the economy remains anchored in the traditional labor of ranching and farming, the presence of John J Sablatura Park, five miles away, serves as a grounded space for community reflection and local gathering. The history of the region is whispered in the persistent, bilingual texture of daily conversation and the stoic endurance of structures that have weathered decades of heat and wind. Life in Agua Dulce moves with a deliberate, measured pace, indifferent to the frantic speed of the modern world, preferring the steady, predictable cycle of the seasons as they shift over the plains toward Tranquitas Lake in the distance.

About This Agua Dulce Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Agua Dulce, Texas. Coordinates: 27.781692, -97.90861. 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 Agua Dulce includes the ZIP code (78330, 79928), telephone area code (830, 915), county seat of Nueces County (Corpus Christi), and school district assignment (Agua Dulce Independent School District).

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.