Explore Bon Wier, 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 Bon Wier, 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 Bon Wier.
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 | Bon Wier |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Newton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.739924 |
| Longitude | -93.643231 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 75928 |
| Area Code | 903 |
| County Seat | Newton |
Bon Wier reveals itself through the steady, amber-hued light that filters down into the dense piney woods, where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and turpentine. It lies 45.0 miles north of Orange, TX (from Orange, TX: bearing 7°T), and is situated 10.1 miles southeast of Newton. Caney Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its dark waters reflecting the towering timber that defines the horizon in every direction. The terrain here is marked by subtle shifts in elevation, a rhythmic rising and falling of the land that hides the distant summit of Bald Hill far to the west. On quiet afternoons, the stillness is broken only by the rustle of undergrowth or the sharp, singular cry of a hawk circling above the canopy, while the transition from the golden hour to dusk turns the sky into a bruised palette of violet and deep gray.
Bon Wier carries the weight of a long-standing relationship with the forest, a history built upon the timber industry that once moved by rail and steam through these thickets. The local economy persists as a quiet extension of the land, shaped by the cycles of growth and harvest that define life for those who work the timber tracts and manage the sprawling woodland acreage. While the modern pace remains deliberate, residents often look toward the quiet expanse of Pecan Lake for a respite from the humidity, or find a sense of solitude within the protected boundaries of Caney Creek Park. This place exists as a testament to endurance, where the legacy of early settlers is imprinted in the sturdy frame of the architecture and the persistent, quiet tenacity of a life tethered to the rhythm of the trees.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bon Wier, Texas. Coordinates: 30.739924, -93.643231. 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 Bon Wier includes the ZIP code (75928), telephone area code (903), county seat of Newton County (Newton), and school district assignment.
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. |