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Amargosa Texas Map

Explore Amargosa, 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.

Interactive Map of Amargosa, Texas

How to Use This Amargosa, Texas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Amargosa, 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 Amargosa.

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	Amargosa
State	Texas (TX)
County	Jim Wells County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	27.8916
Longitude	-98.1086
Population	305
Density	77.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	78332
Area Code	830
County Seat	Alice
School District	Alice Independent School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Findley (Local Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 161° S
Alice Municipal Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 8.5 mi, 160° S
West Park (Local Recreation) — 8.9 mi, 165° S
Los Preseños (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 152° SE
Craig Park (Local Park) — 9.5 mi, 170° S
Jim Wells County Courthouse (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 166° S
First United Methodist Church (Alice) (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 167° S
South Texas Museum (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 168° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 11.5 mi, 223° SW
Lake Corpus Christi State Park (State Park) — 17.9 mi, 050° NE
San Patricio Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 18.6 mi, 073° E
Bulldog Stadium (Stadium) — 20.1 mi, 107° E
Violet Museum (Museum) — 22.8 mi, 109° E
John E Conner Museum (Museum) — 29.1 mi, 151° SE
Grace Armantrout Museum (Museum) — 29.4 mi, 359° N
1904 Train Depot Museum (Museum) — 29.8 mi, 150° SE
Rio 7 Cinemas (Cinema) — 31.5 mi, 149° SE
James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 40.1 mi, 344° N
Choke Canyon State Park (State Park) — 40.4 mi, 346° N
Rialto Theater (Theatre) — 41.5 mi, 032° NE
St. John Paul II Statue (Public Artwork) — 43.3 mi, 107° E
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 43.7 mi, 069° E
Robert E. Salle Observation Pavilion (Viewpoint) — 43.9 mi, 097° E
Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 44.1 mi, 098° E
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 44.1 mi, 097° E
K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 44.1 mi, 098° E
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 53.5 mi, 078° E
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 56.0 mi, 120° SE · 262k acres
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 64.6 mi, 093° E
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 70.6 mi, 074° E · 298k acres

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