Alamo Beach Texas Map

About Alamo Beach, Texas

Alamo Beach is a locality in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 254. The population density is 129.6 people per km². Alamo Beach is located at 28.5723°N, 96.5642°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 77979.

Alamo Beach remains a quiet expanse of flat, salt-scrubbed earth where the horizon dissolves into the pale, humid haze of the Texas coastline. It lies 3.4 miles southeast of Port Lavaca, TX (from Port Lavaca, TX: bearing 135°T), and is situated 29.7 miles east-southeast of Victoria. The air here holds a heavy, briny weight, shifting with the tides that pull toward the distant, shimmering surface of Chocolate Bay. Grasses lean perpetually inland, bent by the persistent Gulf winds that scour the low-lying terrain, while the light at dusk bleeds a bruised violet across the marshy fringes. Inland, the landscape flattens into an unassuming prairie, occasionally broken by the dark, stagnant veins of Little Chocolate Bayou, which meanders through the silt toward the water. Beyond the immediate coastal reach, the land maintains a stoic, unadorned simplicity, leaving the sky to dominate the view with its vast, uninterrupted reach.

Alamo Beach traces its identity to the rhythms of the water, where the local economy has long tethered itself to the seasonal yields of the bay. Residents maintain an existence defined by the ebb and flow of the tide, often retreating to the quiet solitude of Wilson Park or the nearby shores to watch the sun descend behind the silhouette of Indianola Island. While Old Town Lake sits in the stillness of the interior, the life of the place is dictated by the salt air and the maritime heritage that lingers in the weathered siding of older structures. Far to the northwest, the faint, hazy suggestion of Old Red Bluff anchors the distant geography, providing a singular point of reference in an otherwise featureless expanse. It is a place of deliberate isolation, where the pace of the day is measured not by clocks, but by the slow, steady movement of the water against the sand.

About This Alamo Beach Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alamo Beach, Texas. Coordinates: 28.572277, -96.564179. 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 Alamo Beach includes the ZIP code (77979), telephone area code (409), county seat of Calhoun County (Port Lavaca), and school district assignment (Calhoun County 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.