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Baird Texas Map

Explore Baird, 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 Baird, Texas

How to Use This Baird, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.394017
Longitude	-99.394244
Population	1,479
Density	214.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	79504
Area Code	806
County Seat	Baird
School District	Baird Independent School District

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About Baird, Texas

Baird is a locality in Callahan County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,479. The population density is 214.9 people per km². Baird is located at 32.3940°N, 99.3942°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Baird is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79504.

Baird rises from the dusty expanse of the West Texas plains, a place where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a relentless, wide-open sky. It lies 20.1 miles east of Abilene, TX (from Abilene, TX: bearing 101°T), and is situated 5.9 miles east of Clyde. The landscape surrounding Baird defines itself through the quiet persistence of dry earth and low-slung scrub, punctuated only by the occasional shimmer of T P Lake a mile out or the winding, seasonal path of Mexia Creek. To the west, the distant silhouette of the Edwards Plateau lingers as a faint, jagged promise on the edge of vision, while the immediate ground offers the rugged, sun-bleached character of a land that demands patience from those who dwell upon it. The air here carries the scent of baked limestone and dry grass, a stillness that settles over the terrain long before the light begins to fail, turning the expansive fields into a canvas of bruised purples and deep, fading ochre.

Baird serves as a waypoint of enduring resilience, its architecture and character forged by the rhythmic pulse of the railroad and the stubborn independence of the ranching industry that first defined its early commerce. At the center of daily life, Bell Park offers a modest, green reprieve from the heat, providing a quiet space that anchors the local spirit amidst the wider, arid basin of Club Hollow. Economic life in Baird remains tied to the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons and the regional trade that has defined these plains for generations, reflecting a hard-won stability that values substance over spectacle. There is a particular clarity in the way the wind moves through the streets here, an honest, unvarnished sound that speaks of a place content to exist on its own terms, far removed from the frantic pace of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Callahan County (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 357° N
Camp Pecan, C.S.A. (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 335° NW
First Presbyterian Church of Baird (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 066° NE
Bell Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 006° N
Clyde Lake Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 222° SW
Grover Nelson Park (Local Recreation) — 17.2 mi, 280° W
Wire "Giraffe and Calf" art (Public Artwork) — 17.7 mi, 281° W
Women for Abilene Christian University Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 285° W
Elmer Gray Stadium (Stadium) — 19.2 mi, 286° W
Paramount Theater (Theatre) — 20.2 mi, 282° W
Van Ellis Theatre (Theatre) — 20.6 mi, 286° W
Sea Bee Park (Local Recreation) — 20.6 mi, 298° NW
Petrified Tree (Attraction) — 20.7 mi, 286° W
Myers Memorial Arena (Stadium) — 21.2 mi, 287° W
Morgan Jones Planetarium (Museum) — 21.7 mi, 282° W
Flying “A” Car Museum (Museum) — 23.5 mi, 014° N
Fort Phantom Hill (Attraction) — 23.9 mi, 316° NW
The Old Jail Art Center (Arts Centre) — 25.0 mi, 002° N
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 29.9 mi, 250° W
CCC Stonework (Historic Ruins) — 30.2 mi, 249° W
Austin McCloud Appellate Court Museum (Museum) — 33.5 mi, 089° E
Ol' Rip (Attraction) — 33.6 mi, 089° E
Museum of Aircraft Perservation (Museum) — 36.9 mi, 052° NE
Hords Creek Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 38.8 mi, 196° S
Lake Brownwood State Park (State Park) — 42.3 mi, 151° SE
McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 45.5 mi, 138° SE
Roger R Fawcett Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 64.7 mi, 076° E

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