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Candelaria Texas Map

Explore Candelaria, 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 Candelaria, Texas

How to Use This Candelaria, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	30.13849
Longitude	-104.682982
Density	N/A /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	79843
Area Code	915
County Seat	Marfa

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About Candelaria, Texas

Candelaria is a locality in Presidio County, Texas, United States. Candelaria is located at 30.1385°N, 104.6830°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 79843.

Candelaria occupies a stark, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon stretches toward a vast, unforgiving sky. It lies 137.4 miles southeast of San Elizario, TX (from San Elizario, TX: bearing 136°T), and is situated 44.1 miles north-northwest of Presidio. The Rio Grande carves a ribbon of dark, life-sustaining silt through the arid floor, providing a singular contrast to the skeletal scrub and sun-baked earth that define the local terrain. To the north, the rise of Cerro Chino marks the landscape with a jagged silhouette, while the nearby Arroyo Palo Blanco channels the fleeting, violent rains that occasionally scour the basin. Light here possesses a peculiar, crystalline quality, sharpening the edges of every stone and casting long, violet shadows that seem to swallow the heat as the day wanes. The air retains a dry, mineral scent, carrying the quiet weight of a land that measures time by the slow erosion of its own limestone bones.

Candelaria remains a place defined by the thin, porous border, where the economy has long favored the resilience of small-scale ranching and the slow, deliberate work of those who know how to coax a living from the desert. The influence of the Chinati Mountains, a SCA, looms in the collective consciousness of the local inhabitants, serving as a distant, protective boundary for the rugged wilderness that surrounds them. Historically, the patterns of settlement here reflect a persistence against the harshness of the climate, with family ties and ancestral knowledge bridging the gap between generations. Life in Candelaria moves with the steady, unadorned pace of the seasons, indifferent to the clamor of the outside world, favoring instead the simple, honest labor of maintaining a foothold in a land that is as indifferent as it is beautiful.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Chinati Mountains (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 139° SE
Would You Hold Still Please (Viewpoint) — 16.1 mi, 095° E
Milton Faver (Monument) — 29.8 mi, 125° SE
Porvenir Massacre (Monument) — 30.7 mi, 033° NE
Here Milton Faver (Monument) — 31.7 mi, 135° SE
Big Bend Ranch State Park (State Park) — 35.2 mi, 131° SE
Untitled (dawn To Dusk) (Public Artwork) — 40.6 mi, 074° E
Chinati Foundation (Attraction) — 40.7 mi, 074° E
Indio Ranch (Recreation Easement) — 41.1 mi, 337° NW
Marfa and Presidio County Museum (Museum) — 41.2 mi, 073° E
Glitch Gallery (Gallery) — 41.3 mi, 073° E
Maintenant (Gallery) — 43.5 mi, 074° E
Kellogg Park (Local Park) — 44.4 mi, 154° SE
Casa Ramon (Historic Ruins) — 44.9 mi, 130° SE
Davis Mountains Preserve (Conservation Area) — 45.5 mi, 041° NE
Vasques House Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 48.1 mi, 135° SE
Davis Mountains State Park (State Park) — 53.6 mi, 055° NE
McDonald Observatory (Attraction) — 54.2 mi, 046° NE
Davis Mountains Easement - H. E. Sproul Timmo (Park) — 56.8 mi, 050° NE
Davis Mountains (Conservation Area) — 58.7 mi, 048° NE
Neill Museum (Museum) — 60.3 mi, 049° NE
Overland Trail Museum (Museum) — 60.3 mi, 049° NE
Buffalo Trail Scout Ranch/High Adventure Camp (Park) — 60.5 mi, 043° NE
Mountain View Municipal Golf Course (Local Park) — 62.0 mi, 351° N
Ranga Theatres (Cinema) — 62.9 mi, 076° E
Granada Theatre (Theatre) — 62.9 mi, 076° E
Museum of the Big Bend (Museum) — 63.5 mi, 076° E
Midwestern State University Dalquest Desert Research Station (Recreation Easement) — 65.0 mi, 126° SE
Culberson County Historic Museum (Museum) — 65.7 mi, 353° N
Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 66.3 mi, 095° E

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