Bear Creek Texas Map

About Bear Creek, Texas

Bear Creek is a locality in Cass County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 397. The population density is 134.3 people per km². Bear Creek is located at 30.1824°N, 97.9401°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bear Creek is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 75630, 77328, 78737.

Bear Creek emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed floor of the East Texas landscape, where the soil holds the deep, rust-colored iron of the region. It lies 27.0 miles north of Marshall, TX (from Marshall, TX: bearing 350°T), and is situated 17.2 miles east-southeast of Daingerfield. The earth here is a mosaic of sandy loam and clay, thick with the scent of damp needles and decaying leaf litter that persists even during the long, dry afternoons. To the north, the horizon is punctuated by the faint, jagged silhouette of the Black Mountains, visible only when the air loses its heavy summer haze. The local topography is defined by the winding course of Bear Creek, which carves a modest path through the timber, and the quiet, still waters of Flag Pond, where the light at dusk turns the surface into a mirror of hammered copper.

Bear Creek maintains an economy tethered to the slow pulse of the timber industry and the quiet persistence of family-held land, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s larger metropolitan centers. Residents often look toward the Lake O' The Pines Recreation Area as a primary threshold for leisure, finding a reprieve in the vast, wooded corridors that define the local geography. History here is quiet, marked not by grand monuments but by the enduring presence of homesteads that have weathered generations of humid summers and sudden, violent thunderstorms. The pace of life in Bear Creek is dictated by the turning seasons and the movement of the sun across the canopy, creating a culture that values the steady, unspoken habits of those who have long recognized the land as a source of both labor and profound, solitary beauty.

About This Bear Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bear Creek, Texas. Coordinates: 30.182376, -97.940055. 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 Bear Creek includes the ZIP code (75630, 77328, 78737), telephone area code (713, 832, 512, 737), county seat of Cass County (Linden), and school district assignment (Dripping Springs 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.