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Austwell Texas Map

Explore Austwell, 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 Austwell, Texas

How to Use This Austwell, Texas Map

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

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	Austwell
State	Texas (TX)
County	Refugio County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	28.390281
Longitude	-96.842208
Population	118
Density	125.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	77950
Area Code	409
County Seat	Refugio
School District	Austwell-Tivoli Independent School District

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About Austwell, Texas

Austwell is a locality in Refugio County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 118. The population density is 125.5 people per km². Austwell is located at 28.3903°N, 96.8422°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Austwell is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 77950.

Austwell sits low against the horizon where the flat, salt-scrubbed prairie surrenders to the brackish reach of the coast. It lies 20.3 miles southwest of Port Lavaca, TX (from Port Lavaca, TX: bearing 220°T), and is situated 30.3 miles south-southeast of Victoria. The air here carries a heavy, humid weight, smelling of brine and damp earth, as the landscape stretches toward Hynes Bay, just two miles to the east. Across the marshy expanse, the sky often turns a bruised violet at dusk, a quality of light that seems to hold the silence of the wetlands in suspension. Visitors wandering through Wilson Heard Park find a sanctuary of tall grasses and wind-bent brush, while the distant, hazy rise of The Sand Mounds marks the only break in the otherwise level, expansive view. To the north, the slow, meandering path of Boggy Bayou cuts through the silt, its dark waters reflecting the erratic flight patterns of birds moving toward the shelter of Kamey Island.

Austwell remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, a place where the economy has long been defined by the stubborn, seasonal persistence of ranching and the quiet extraction of resources from the soil. The history of the area is etched in the fence lines and the weathered siding of structures that have held their ground against the frequent, scouring winds off the water. While the pace of life remains deliberate, the proximity to the water draws those who value the solitude of the coastline over the clamor of the interior. Further inland, the stillness of Burgentine Lake provides a different kind of quiet, a freshwater counterpoint to the salt-heavy air that defines the local character. Life in Austwell moves with the tides and the shifting seasons, a steady and unadorned existence played out on the edge of a vast, open frontier.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Preston Rose Austin (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 232° SW
Wilson Heard Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 249° W
Austwell City Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 262° W
Guadalupe Delta Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 347° N
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.9 mi, 179° S · 298k acres
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 4.9 mi, 181° S
Harbor Gate at Seadrift (Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 065° NE
Hog and Schwing Bayou Preserve (Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 355° N
Buffalo Lake Overlook, Guadalupe Delta WMA (Nature Reserve) — 7.8 mi, 004° N
Seadrift (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 079° E
Original Mission Refugio (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 012° N
Welder Flats Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.2 mi, 114° SE
Powderhorn West Conservation Easement (Park) — 13.2 mi, 064° NE
Goose Island State Park (State Park) — 18.0 mi, 206° SW
Calhoun County Museum (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 040° NE
Port Lavaca Main Street Theatre (Theatre) — 20.5 mi, 040° NE
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle (Public Artwork) — 22.4 mi, 065° NE
Rockport Birding & Kajak Adventures (Attraction) — 24.7 mi, 209° SW
Refugio County Museum (Museum) — 26.9 mi, 258° W
Texas Maritime Museum (Museum) — 28.1 mi, 207° SW
Nave Museum (Museum) — 30.2 mi, 341° N
Formosa-Tejano Wetlands Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 36.6 mi, 039° NE
Presidio la Bahia Museum (Museum) — 37.3 mi, 299° NW
CCC Kiln (Historic Ruins) — 37.9 mi, 299° NW
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 40.5 mi, 199° S
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 41.0 mi, 243° SW
Shark Stadium (Stadium) — 42.9 mi, 059° NE
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 51.9 mi, 220° SW
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 64.1 mi, 203° SW · 262k acres
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 68.1 mi, 067° NE · 193k acres

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