Explore Bronte, 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 Bronte, 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 Bronte.
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 | Bronte |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Coke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.887367 |
| Longitude | -100.29176 |
| Population | 933 |
| Density | 250.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 76933 |
| Area Code | 325 |
| County Seat | Robert Lee |
| School District | Bronte Independent School District |
Bronte occupies a stretch of vast, sun-bleached plains where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 30.5 miles north-northeast of San Angelo, TX (from San Angelo, TX: bearing 16°T), and is situated 19.9 miles west-southwest of Winters. The Middle Kickapoo Creek carves a quiet, seasonal path through the dry grasses, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of mesquite and scrub oak that cling to the alkaline soil. Only a mile away, Old City Lake holds the reflective stillness of the prairie, mirroring a sky that shifts from pale, dusty blue to a bruised, electric violet as the sun retreats. While the distant silhouettes of the Edwards Plateau remain a mere suggestion of jagged geometry far to the south, the immediate landscape of Bronte feels expansive and unshielded, defined by the relentless, clarifying light that bleaches the color from the summer brush and leaves the air smelling of parched limestone and wild sage.
History in Bronte is measured in the persistence of ranching families and the steady, rhythmic pulse of the energy sector that has long anchored the local economy. The land beyond the town limits, including the rugged depressions toward Dry Hollow, speaks of a life shaped by the scarcity of water and the resilience required to coax a living from the hard-packed clay. Residents often look toward Lake View Park for a reprieve from the heat, finding a social anchor in the shared stewardship of the surrounding plains. The pace of life here is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the demands of the oil patch, creating a culture that values a quiet, deliberate endurance over the frantic velocity of more crowded places.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bronte, Texas. Coordinates: 31.887367, -100.29176. 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 Bronte includes the ZIP code (76933), telephone area code (325), county seat of Coke County (Robert Lee), and school district assignment (Bronte 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. |