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Blum Texas Map

Explore Blum, 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 Blum, Texas

How to Use This Blum, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.14265
Longitude	-97.397238
Population	383
Density	149.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	76627
Area Code	325
County Seat	Hillsboro
School District	Blum Independent School District

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About Blum, Texas

Blum is a locality in Hill County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 383. The population density is 149.5 people per km². Blum is located at 32.1427°N, 97.3972°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Blum is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 76627.

Blum stretches across a landscape defined by the steady, persistent presence of the Nolan River, which carves a path through the limestone earth just a short distance from the center. It lies 14.2 miles south of Cleburne, TX (from Cleburne, TX: bearing 182°T), and is situated 18.1 miles west-northwest of Hillsboro. The terrain rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells toward Brushy Knob, five miles to the west, while the deep shade of Broke Rock Hollow offers a cool, sheltered silence four miles away. Sunlight here possesses a distinct, heavy clarity, bleaching the grasses of the prairie to a pale, brittle gold by mid-afternoon and casting long, sharp shadows across the limestone outcrops. At dusk, the air cools rapidly, carrying the faint, metallic scent of damp silt from the riverbed and the dry, sweet smell of sun-baked earth.

Blum maintains a quiet, deliberate pace of life, rooted in a history of agriculture and the simple necessities of the surrounding plains. The local economy remains tethered to the land, where the rhythms of the seasons dictate the flow of the days more surely than any clock. Residents and visitors often find their way to the Whitney Point Recreation Area, which serves as a natural anchor for those drawn to the water or the open expanse of the outdoors. Even when the heat of a Texas summer settles over the fields, the proximity of Kennan Lake Number 1 provides a necessary relief, marking the horizon seven miles away as a sliver of blue against the vast, shifting sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Gus Bailey (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 175° S
Blum Cemetery (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 176° S
Whitney Point Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 0.4 mi, 352° N
Whitney Lake (Recreation Area) — 1.6 mi, 198° S
Phillip Nolan Historical Marker (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 016° N
Kirtley Park (Local Park) — 10.2 mi, 355° N
Cleburne State Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 310° NW
Serenity Point (Attraction) — 11.7 mi, 174° S
Bryon Stewart Park (Local Park) — 12.9 mi, 347° N
Cinemark Cinema 6 (Cinema) — 13.4 mi, 355° N
Cleburne Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 13.6 mi, 006° N
Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players (Theatre) — 13.6 mi, 357° N
Plaza Theatre Company at Dudley Hall (Theatre) — 14.0 mi, 003° N
How Do You Stack Up? (Public Artwork) — 14.1 mi, 003° N
Old Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 14.1 mi, 007° N
Johnson County Courthouse Museum (Museum) — 14.2 mi, 003° N
Stevens Ranch (Park) — 17.1 mi, 299° NW
Reflections Art Gallery (Gallery) — 18.1 mi, 120° SE
Hillsboro Arts League (Gallery) — 18.1 mi, 120° SE
Hill County Cellblock Museum (Museum) — 18.2 mi, 121° SE
Ed Young Station (Historic Ruins) — 20.8 mi, 290° W
Barnard's Mill and Art Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 286° W
Mt. Loma (Viewpoint) — 22.6 mi, 320° NW
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (Park) — 23.0 mi, 275° W
Dinosaur Valley State Park (State Park) — 24.3 mi, 287° W
Old Maypearl Depot (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 063° NE
Apatosaurus (Attraction) — 25.5 mi, 287° W
Tyrannosaurus rex (Attraction) — 25.5 mi, 287° W
Lake Waco Wetlands (National Conservation Area) — 36.8 mi, 172° S · 348 acres
Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland (National Grassland) — 77.5 mi, 349° N · 20k acres

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