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Bear Creek Texas Map

Explore Bear Creek, 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 Bear Creek, Texas

How to Use This Bear Creek, Texas Map

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

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.

CityBear Creek
StateTexas (TX)
CountyCass County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude30.182376
Longitude-97.940055
Population397
Density134.3 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes75630, 77328, 78737
Area Code713, 832, 512, 737
County SeatLinden
School DistrictDripping Springs Independent School District

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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Grey Rock Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 055° NE
  • Breed (Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 023° NE
  • Circle C Enclave Greenway (Local Park) — 1.9 mi, 065° NE
  • Circle C Park 1 (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 069° E
  • Hielscher Tract Greenbelt (Local Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 070° E
  • COA Water Quality Conservation Easement (Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 186° S
  • The Whisky Vault (Attraction) — 2.9 mi, 212° SW
  • Circle C Ranch Metro Park (Local Recreation) — 3.1 mi, 070° E
  • Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (Recreation Easement) — 3.5 mi, 094° E
  • Latta Branch Greenbelt (Local Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 059° NE
  • Oak Hill (Monument) — 5.6 mi, 050° NE
  • Camp Ben McCulloch No. 946, United Confederate Veterans (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 231° SW
  • Old Rock Store (Monument) — 6.1 mi, 053° NE
  • Austin Educational Theatre (Theatre) — 7.2 mi, 115° SE
  • Pound House Historical Farmstead (Museum) — 8.5 mi, 278° W
  • Flip’N Art (Gallery) — 8.8 mi, 359° N
  • Sculpture Falls (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 052° NE
  • Twin Falls (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 059° NE
  • Hill of Life Falls (Attraction) — 8.9 mi, 046° NE
  • Regal Cinema Westgate 11 (Cinema) — 9.0 mi, 068° E
  • Westlake Community Performing Arts Center (PAC) (Arts Centre) — 9.9 mi, 049° NE
  • Lake Travis Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 10.2 mi, 350° N
  • Cathedral of Junk (Public Artwork) — 10.4 mi, 076° E
  • Jolin Lookout (Viewpoint) — 11.9 mi, 059° NE
  • McKinney Falls State Park (State Park) — 12.4 mi, 092° E
  • McLennon Pen Co. Gallery (Gallery) — 12.5 mi, 060° NE
  • Wally Workman Gallery (Gallery) — 12.6 mi, 060° NE
  • Violet Crown Cinema (Cinema) — 12.8 mi, 063° NE
  • Pedernales Falls State Park (State Park) — 18.4 mi, 291° W
  • Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.5 mi, 357° N · 43k acres

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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).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

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.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.