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Brookston Texas Map

Explore Brookston, 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 Brookston, Texas

How to Use This Brookston, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	33.62316
Longitude	-95.699406
Population	91
Density	47.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	75421
Area Code	972, 469
County Seat	Paris
School District	Chisum Independent School District

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About Brookston, Texas

Brookston is a locality in Lamar County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 91. The population density is 47.7 people per km². Brookston is located at 33.6232°N, 95.6994°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 75421.

Brookston anchors itself upon the quiet, sun-bleached expanse of the North Texas plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut under a sky of immense, pale clarity. It lies 8.7 miles west-southwest of Paris, TX (from Paris, TX: bearing 253°T), and is situated 13.9 miles west-southwest of Reno. The earth here is a sturdy composition of clay and loam, yielding to the subtle, rhythmic pull of the seasons that dictate the color of the grass from dusty ochre to a sharp, vivid green. Just a mile away, the South Branch Pine Creek traces a thin, dark ribbon through the brush, its waters moving with a slow, deliberate gravity that mirrors the pace of the surrounding fields. The air carries the dry, honest scent of turned soil and cured hay, a sensory permanence that defines the landscape as one moves toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Harpers Hill.

Brookston persists as a quiet node of agrarian endurance, its foundations laid by those who recognized the fertility of the blackland prairie and the value of a steady, localized economy. The rhythms of the day remain tethered to the slow turn of the seasons and the maintenance of the nearby acreage, while the Gambill Goose Refuge, five miles distant, serves as a seasonal sanctuary where the sudden, frantic beat of wings against the twilight air punctuates the stillness. Commerce here moves with a tempered, pragmatic grace, far removed from the frantic pulse of the urban centers to the south. Life in Brookston revolves around the enduring presence of the land, whether one is traveling toward the quiet expanse of Lake Crook for a moment of reflection or tending to the chores that have defined these homesteads for generations.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tridens Prairie (Monument) — 1.3 mi, 005° N
Smiley-Woodfin Native Prairie Grassland (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 342° N
Flying Tigers Museum (Museum) — 1.5 mi, 102° E
Gambill Goose Refuge (Local Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 019° N
Lake Gibbons (Local Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 024° NE
Gambill Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 5.8 mi, 027° NE
Lamar County (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 065° NE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Tx (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.5 mi, 105° E · 1,438 acres
Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center (Museum) — 8.0 mi, 072° E
Sports Complex Park (Local Recreation) — 10.1 mi, 082° E
Eiffel Tower (Attraction) — 10.2 mi, 083° E
Pat Mayse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.4 mi, 001° N
Pat Mayse Lake (Recreation Area) — 12.4 mi, 010° N
Caddo National Grassland (National Grassland) — 13.5 mi, 314° NW · 18k acres
Caddo National Grassland-Bois D'arc (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 314° NW
Delta County Patterson Memorial Museum (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 179° S
Cooper Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 17.9 mi, 184° S
Cooper Lake State Park - Doctors Creek Unit (State Park) — 18.6 mi, 176° S
Cooper Lake State Park - South Sulphur Unit (State Park) — 21.9 mi, 166° S
Sunset Cove (Viewpoint) — 22.9 mi, 175° S
Fort Inglish Village (Museum) — 28.3 mi, 264° W
Planetarium (Museum) — 29.0 mi, 205° SW
Oklahoma Awesome Adventures (Attraction) — 29.7 mi, 025° NE
Waterfowl Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 38.8 mi, 022° N
Skydive Spaceland Dallas (Attraction) — 40.9 mi, 253° W
Deer Statue (Public Artwork) — 42.5 mi, 215° SW
The Attic (Attraction) — 42.6 mi, 214° SW
Gamescape by Cinemark (Cinema) — 44.0 mi, 214° SW
Nation Theater (Theatre) — 51.7 mi, 272° W
Ouachita National Forest (National Forest) — 57.0 mi, 049° NE · 1.8M acres

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