Allison Texas Map

About Allison, Texas

Allison is a locality in Hood County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 125. The population density is 23.7 people per km². Allison is located at 35.6120°N, 100.1115°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 76462, 76234, 79003.

Allison occupies a stretch of high, open plains where the horizon pulls the sky tight against the earth, creating a vast, exposed theater for the movement of light. It lies 11.9 miles northwest of Granbury, TX (from Granbury, TX: bearing 305°T), and is situated 8.3 miles west-northwest of Oak Trail Shores. The Killing Branch carves a quiet, persistent line through the landscape, its banks providing a subtle relief to the otherwise level expanse of the surrounding prairie. To the west, the distant silhouette of the Devils Backbone marks the edge of the world, while the nearby trickle of Kickapoo Falls offers a fleeting, rhythmic counterpoint to the stillness of the dry grass. A few miles away, the waters of Aldenhoven Lake catch the afternoon sun, turning the color of hammered copper and anchoring the local geography in a basin of quiet reflection.

Allison maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of the land, drawing its vitality from the ranchers and farmers who have long worked these deep, unforgiving soils. The economy remains tethered to the slow pulse of agriculture and the maintenance of the vast, unfenced stretches that define the local character. Beyond the working fields, the proximity of the Ark II wildlife area provides a sanctuary for the native grasses and fauna that once claimed the entire region, preserving a fragment of the wilderness before the fences arrived. Life here moves with a deliberate, sparse grace, where the silence of the evening is broken only by the wind shifting across the plains, leaving the inhabitants to measure their time by the changing length of shadows and the steady, unadorned labor of the seasons.

About This Allison Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Allison, Texas. Coordinates: 35.61198, -100.111539. 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 Allison includes the ZIP code (76462, 76234, 79003), telephone area code (817, 806), county seat of Hood County (Granbury), and school district assignment (Fort Elliott Consolidated 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.