Explore Caney City, 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 Caney City, 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 Caney City.
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 | Caney City |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Henderson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.209619 |
| Longitude | -96.038142 |
| Population | 187 |
| Density | 62.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 75148 |
| Area Code | 214, 469 |
| County Seat | Athens |
| School District | Malakoff Independent School District |
Caney City emerges from the flat, scrub-brushed plains as a quiet expanse where the horizon stretches long and thin against a pale, washed-out sky. It lies 10.5 miles west of Athens, TX (from Athens, TX: bearing 278°T), and is situated 8.5 miles east-southeast of Tool. Cedar Creek Reservoir holds the light of the late afternoon, its surface mirroring the shifting greys of the atmosphere as the water laps against the low, grassy banks that define the perimeter of the landscape. A mile from the center of activity, Spring Branch cuts a modest, winding path through the heavy clay soil, its current barely audible beneath the rustle of persistent prairie grasses. Ten miles distant, the silhouette of Melton Rock rises as a solitary, jagged interruption to the otherwise level topography, a landmark that anchors the view for anyone looking toward the edge of the county. The air here carries a dry, earthen weight, cooling rapidly as the sun retreats behind the distant, featureless horizon.
Caney City preserves the remnants of an older, agrarian cadence, where the economy remains tethered to the slow cycles of the land and the modest commerce of a rural crossroads. Life moves with an unpretentious gravity, influenced by the proximity of Alamo Dr, a local park that serves as a necessary patch of managed green space for those who live among the scattered dwellings and quiet thoroughfares. While the Purtis Creek State Park Trail lies ten miles away for those seeking a longer trek into the wilderness, the residents of Caney City find their own rhythm in the daily upkeep of fence lines and the steady, predictable arrival of the seasons. The character of the locale is found in the stillness of the afternoon, a quietude that persists long after the work of the day has ceased and the distant, cooling shadows begin to lengthen across the fields.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Caney City, Texas. Coordinates: 32.209619, -96.038142. 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 Caney City includes the ZIP code (75148), telephone area code (214, 469), county seat of Henderson County (Athens), and school district assignment (Malakoff 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. |