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Bear Creek Ranch Texas Map

Explore Bear Creek Ranch, 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 Ranch, Texas

How to Use This Bear Creek Ranch, Texas Map

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

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	Bear Creek Ranch
State	Texas (TX)
County	Dallas County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.562465
Longitude	-96.762493
Population	1,787
Density	1146.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	75146
Area Code	214, 469
County Seat	Dallas
School District	Lancaster Independent School District

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About Bear Creek Ranch, Texas

Bear Creek Ranch is a locality in Dallas County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,787. The population density is 1146.1 people per km². Bear Creek Ranch is located at 32.5625°N, 96.7625°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 75146.

Bear Creek Ranch occupies a quiet expanse of North Texas prairie where the horizon stretches thin and pale under the heat of the afternoon sun. It lies 2.1 miles south of Lancaster, TX (from Lancaster, TX: bearing 190°T), and is situated 5.8 miles east-southeast of DeSoto. Tenmile Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the limestone-laced soil just a mile away, its banks lined with the gnarled, persistent roots of native hardwoods that grip the earth against the seasonal shift of dry spells and sudden, violent rains. To the west, the distant rise of Inspiration Point offers a solitary anchor for the eye, while the nearby expanse of Bear Creek Nature Park preserves a fragment of the wilder, scrub-heavy brush that once dominated this interior landscape. The light here has a peculiar, bleached intensity, turning the grasses to a brittle gold that sighs with a metallic rasp whenever the wind shears across the plains.

Economic life at Bear Creek Ranch remains tethered to the slow, stubborn rhythms of the land, defined by a legacy of grazing and the quiet industry of those who manage the deep-rooted soil. While the Soil Conservation Service Site 10 Reservoir sits nine miles off as a silent, artificial mirror to the sky, the true pulse of the area is found in the fences that divide the open range and the persistent work of maintaining a livelihood far from the frantic pace of larger hubs. Residents often look toward the regional paths like the Boulder Park Trail for respite, yet the character of the place is forged in the isolation of the high-plains interior. It is a territory of long shadows and pragmatic resilience, where the history of settlement is read in the weathering of fence posts and the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bear Creek Nature Park (Local Conservation Area) — 0.7 mi, 333° NW
Country View Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 0.8 mi, 336° NW
Tenmile Creek Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.4 mi, 045° NE
Winniford House (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 090° E
Edgewood Cemetery (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 033° NE
Lancaster City Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 003° N
Lancaster Education (Monument) — 1.9 mi, 012° N
Lancaster Community Park (Local Park) — 3.2 mi, 003° N
City Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 3.4 mi, 007° N
Desoto Ranch Park (State Park) — 4.1 mi, 290° W
Snake Encounters (Attraction) — 4.3 mi, 313° NW
Maddogz Paintball -Waxahachie (Public Artwork) — 8.6 mi, 226° SW
Oldest Wilmer Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 9.0 mi, 065° NE
Cedar Hill Museum of History (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 282° W
Predator Encounter (Attraction) — 12.5 mi, 346° N
Giraffe Feeding Station (Attraction) — 12.6 mi, 346° N
Fiji Senior Sign (Attraction) — 12.9 mi, 350° N
Cedar Hill State Park (State Park) — 12.9 mi, 287° W
12th Street Center (Arts Centre) — 13.0 mi, 347° N
Delphinium Knoll (Viewpoint) — 13.3 mi, 301° NW
Dallas Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 14.8 mi, 360° N
Natural History Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 360° N
Music Hall at Fair Park (Theatre) — 15.1 mi, 359° N
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (Museum) — 15.2 mi, 350° N
Ro2 Art (Gallery) — 15.3 mi, 345° N
Sweet Tooth Hotel (Gallery) — 15.3 mi, 352° N
Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland (National Grassland) — 69.3 mi, 320° NW · 20k acres

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