Amargosa Texas Map

About Amargosa, Texas

Amargosa is a locality in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 305. The population density is 77.3 people per km². Amargosa is located at 27.8916°N, 98.1086°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78332.

Amargosa occupies a sprawling expanse of sun-bleached prairie where the horizon line remains uninterrupted by anything more substantial than the distant, hazy rise of the Carmel Hills. It lies 9.9 miles north-northwest of Alice, TX (from Alice, TX: bearing 346°T), and is situated 11.9 miles northeast of San Diego. The air here holds a heavy, dry heat that seems to press against the skin, carrying the scent of parched earth and dormant wildflowers. To the east, the landscape dips toward the winding path of Chiltipin Creek, a slender thread of water that provides the only reprieve from the relentless glare of the midday sun. Beyond the immediate brush, the terrain stretches out in a mosaic of dusty scrub and muted grasses, occasionally broken by the quiet, still surface of Lake Corpus Christi, which glimmers like a dull coin under the expansive Texas sky.

Amargosa carries the quiet weight of a place built on the steady, repetitive labor of the ranching life, its economy tethered to the cycles of the land and the endurance of its livestock. The settlement grew from the necessity of mapping the vast, open range, long before the modern grid arrived to impose order on the wilder sections of the brush. Residents often look toward the conservation efforts at Lake Findley to find a brief sense of reprieve, where the native flora offers a softer texture than the rugged, thorny thickets that define the surrounding acreage. Life in Amargosa moves with the deliberate pace of a long afternoon, dictated by the shifting shadows of the sun and the fundamental, unyielding reality of the soil that anchors every house and fence line to the earth.

About This Amargosa Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Amargosa, Texas. Coordinates: 27.8916, -98.1086. 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 Amargosa includes the ZIP code (78332), telephone area code (830), county seat of Jim Wells County (Alice), and school district assignment (Alice 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.