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Bayside Texas Map

Explore Bayside, 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 Bayside, Texas

How to Use This Bayside, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	28.093904
Longitude	-97.214714
Population	275
Density	104.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	78340
Area Code	830
County Seat	Refugio
School District	Woodsboro Independent School District

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About Bayside, Texas

Bayside is a locality in Refugio County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 275. The population density is 104.5 people per km². Bayside is located at 28.0939°N, 97.2147°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bayside is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 78340.

Bayside rests upon the flat, sun-bleached expanse where the low-lying prairie meets the brackish breath of the coast. It lies 11.0 miles west-northwest of Rockport, TX (from Rockport, TX: bearing 297°T), and is situated 16.4 miles north-northeast of Portland. The salt-heavy air clings to the skin, drifting inland from the distant sheen of Mission Bay to settle over the scrub brush and coastal grasses. To the north, the winding course of the Aransas River marks a quiet boundary, its slow, muddy currents carving through the sediment toward the open water. Here, the horizon is a wide, unobstructed gray, broken only by the silhouettes of birds circling above Driscoll Rooke Covenant Park, where the land holds its breath against the encroaching tide. A few miles out, the marshy edges of Egery Island emerge from the shallows like the spine of some sleeping leviathan, indifferent to the shifting light that turns the water to hammered silver at the close of day.

Bayside carries the weight of a long, quiet endurance, its modest landscape shaped by the seasonal rhythms of the coast and the reach of the surrounding plains. The local economy persists in the quiet labor of the land and the pull of the water, far removed from the frantic pace of the wider world. Beyond the immediate reach of the shore, the land stretches toward the distant, shallow basin of Kaiser Flat, a reminder of the vast, arid character that defines this part of the world. Fresh Water Lake remains a still, hidden presence in the landscape, a stark contrast to the tidal movements that define the rhythm of life here. In the amber glow of a late afternoon, the quiet streets of Bayside offer a reprieve, where the history of the region is whispered in the rustle of dry grass and the persistent, lonely call of gulls overhead.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Johnn Howland Wood and Nancy Clark Wood House (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 131° SE
Driscoll Rooke Covenant Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 135° SE
Site of the Town of Copano (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 149° SE
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.4 mi, 128° SE
Birthplace of Clara Driscoll (Monument) — 1.2 mi, 050° NE
Welder Wildlife Refuge (Conservation Area) — 5.5 mi, 277° W
Copano Cove (Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 115° SE
Memorial Park (Local Park) — 9.8 mi, 112° E
Rockport Birding & Kajak Adventures (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 096° E
Texas Maritime Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 115° SE
Red Fish Bay State Scientific Area (Recreation Easement) — 11.3 mi, 131° SE
Goose Island State Park (State Park) — 13.3 mi, 079° E
Taft Blackland Museum (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 234° SW
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 14.0 mi, 278° W
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.4 mi, 069° E · 298k acres
Refugio County Museum (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 346° N
Ingleside on the Bay Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 16.3 mi, 178° S
Sunset Lake (Local Recreation) — 16.7 mi, 205° SW
Port Aransas Nature Preserve at Charlie's Pasture (Local Conservation Area) — 19.3 mi, 160° S
Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center (Viewpoint) — 20.2 mi, 156° SE
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 20.4 mi, 151° SE
Giant milk bottle (Public Artwork) — 21.2 mi, 210° SW
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 22.0 mi, 209° SW
Museum Of Hispanic Culture (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 209° SW
K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 23.2 mi, 208° SW
Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 23.3 mi, 208° SW
Mustang Island State Park (State Park) — 26.0 mi, 174° S
Buffalo Lake Overlook, Guadalupe Delta WMA (Nature Reserve) — 36.6 mi, 039° NE
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 38.5 mi, 184° S · 262k acres
Rialto Theater (Theatre) — 38.9 mi, 303° NW

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