Explore Bedias, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bedias, 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 Bedias.
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 | Bedias |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Grimes County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.775749 |
| Longitude | -95.949397 |
| Population | 361 |
| Density | 125.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 77831 |
| Area Code | 409 |
| County Seat | Anderson |
| School District | Madisonville Consolidated Independent School District |
Bedias emerges from the quiet expanse of the East Texas post oak savanna, defined by the seasonal pulse of the Town Branch as it carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth. It lies 23.9 miles west of Huntsville, TX (from Huntsville, TX: bearing 279°T), and is situated 12.2 miles south of Madisonville. The landscape here is one of subtle transitions, where dense corridors of hardwood give way to open pastures and the long, amber shadows of late afternoon settle over the clay-heavy soil. To the north, the horizon remains flat and unyielding, though the distant, hazy silhouette of Blue Bonnet Hill offers a singular interruption to the otherwise rhythmic rise and fall of the terrain. The air, thick with the scent of sun-warmed grass and dry leaf litter, carries a stillness that feels heavy with the weight of centuries, particularly as the light fails and the sky bruises into deep violet over the distant surface of Gibbons Creek Reservoir.
Bedias retains the skeletal structure of its nineteenth-century origins, maintaining a slow, deliberate pace of life that favors the persistent labor of agriculture and local trade over the frantic tempo of urban centers. The economy remains tethered to the land, shaped by the cycles of ranching and the maintenance of fences that demarcate the vast, private holdings surrounding the center. Residents often travel toward the outskirts, perhaps visiting the quiet grounds of Marian Anderson Park to find respite in the shade of the trees, a space that serves as a necessary anchor for the local spirit. Life here is measured in the quiet accumulation of seasons, a steady continuity that honors the endurance of those who first cleared the thickets and established the original crossroads, leaving the present to unfold with the simple, unadorned grace of a working landscape.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bedias, Texas. Coordinates: 30.775749, -95.949397. 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 Bedias includes the ZIP code (77831), telephone area code (409), county seat of Grimes County (Anderson), and school district assignment (Madisonville Consolidated 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |