Explore Aiken, 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 Aiken, 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 Aiken.
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 | Aiken |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Floyd County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.6899 |
| Longitude | -94.332147 |
| Population | 180 |
| Density | 2.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 79241, 79221, 75935 |
| Area Code | 903, 806 |
| County Seat | Floydada |
Aiken stretches across the expansive, sun-bleached plains of the Texas Panhandle, where the horizon pulls the sky taut over a landscape defined by its relentless, open breadth. It lies 10.8 miles east-southeast of Plainview, TX (from Plainview, TX: bearing 106°T), and is situated 15.3 miles northwest of Floydada. The earth here is a palette of dusty ochre and bruised gray, marked by the subtle, dry depression of Running Water Draw and the distant, wind-scoured paths carved by Quitaque Creek. During the bruised light of dusk, the shadows lengthen across the flat expanse, rendering the sparse vegetation into sharp, ink-like silhouettes against the fading amber glow of the prairie. Though the region is thousands of miles from any coastline, the air carries a crisp, arid weight that vibrates with the heat of the day, an intensity that seems to slow time itself to the pace of a turning windmill.
Aiken remains a quiet testament to the agrarian persistence of the high plains, where the local economy is anchored firmly in the cyclical labor of cotton and grain. The community bears the marks of early settlement, sustained by the grit of those who recognized the potential in the deep soil despite the harsh, unforgiving weather patterns of the inland plains. Life in Aiken orbits around the rhythm of the harvest and the maintenance of essential infrastructure, with residents often gathering for respite at Frisco Park to find shade under the canopy. While the vast distances to major water bodies like Bois d'Arc Lake emphasize the isolation of the high desert, the people of Aiken cultivate a resilience that is as deep as the roots of the native grasses, holding fast to the land while the wind whispers through the dry stalks of the fallow fields.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Aiken, Texas. Coordinates: 31.6899, -94.332147. 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 Aiken includes the ZIP code (79241, 79221, 75935), telephone area code (903, 806), county seat of Floyd County (Floydada), and school district assignment.
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. |