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Blanket Texas Map

Explore Blanket, 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 Blanket, Texas

How to Use This Blanket, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	31.824038
Longitude	-98.786993
Population	369
Density	220.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	76432
Area Code	254
County Seat	Brownwood
School District	Blanket Independent School District

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About Blanket, Texas

Blanket is a locality in Brown County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 369. The population density is 220.9 people per km². Blanket is located at 31.8240°N, 98.7870°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Blanket is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 76432.

Blanket occupies a stretch of sun-bleached prairie where the horizontal pull of the earth defines the horizon. It lies 14.4 miles east-northeast of Brownwood, TX (from Brownwood, TX: bearing 56°T), and is situated 11.9 miles west-southwest of Comanche. Blanket Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the soil, its banks lined with the gnarled, persistent silhouettes of mesquite and live oak that weather the intense heat of the afternoon. A mile to the north, the Soil Conservation Service Site 3 Reservoir holds a mirror to the immense, cloud-streaked sky, providing a quiet stillness that anchors the surrounding farmland. The light here during the final hour of the day possesses a heavy, amber quality, casting long shadows that stretch across the fields and turn the dry grasses into a sea of muted gold.

History in Blanket remains tied to the stubborn persistence of those who first broke this ground, favoring the cultivation of crops and the grazing of livestock over the frantic pace of the larger world. Five miles away, the McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area preserves a fragment of the native landscape, serving as a reminder of the raw, untamed terrain that once stretched toward the distant silhouette of the Edwards Plateau. Local life moves according to the demands of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest, an economy built on the fiber of the land and the endurance of its people. The atmosphere remains quiet, defined by the sound of wind moving through dry stalks and the occasional passage of a truck on a two-lane road, a place where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow, inevitable deepening of the evening dusk.

Nearby Outdoor Places

McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 328° NW
Muse Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 5.5 mi, 327° NW
Heflin Cemetery (Monument) — 6.8 mi, 293° NW
Pendergrass Cemetery (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 024° NE
Community of Sidney (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 019° N
Comanche County Museum (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 052° NE
Fabis Park (Local Park) — 11.6 mi, 255° W
Regal Heartland (Cinema) — 11.8 mi, 240° SW
Longhorn Cattle Statue (Public Artwork) — 11.9 mi, 064° NE
Sharp Park (Local Park) — 12.5 mi, 236° SW
Brown County Museum of History (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 239° SW
Martin & Frances Lehnis Railroad Musuem (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 237° SW
Lake Brownwood State Park (State Park) — 13.5 mi, 279° W
Lyric Theatre (Theatre) — 13.5 mi, 238° SW
Camp Bowie Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 15.3 mi, 226° SW
Camp Bowie Family Aquatic Center (Local Recreation) — 15.7 mi, 226° SW
Proctor Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 17.0 mi, 054° NE
Proctor Lake (Recreation Area) — 17.6 mi, 055° NE
Hamilton County Historical Museum (Museum) — 39.8 mi, 102° E
Ol' Rip (Attraction) — 39.9 mi, 357° N
Austin McCloud Appellate Court Museum (Museum) — 40.0 mi, 357° N
Art Briles Stadium (Stadium) — 41.8 mi, 050° NE
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 42.7 mi, 051° NE
John Tarleton Ranch House (Attraction) — 44.1 mi, 051° NE
Carriage House (Attraction) — 44.1 mi, 051° NE
Center Grove Schoolhouse (Attraction) — 44.1 mi, 051° NE
Colorado Bend State Park (State Park) — 55.0 mi, 162° S

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