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Canyon Creek Texas Map

Explore Canyon Creek, 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 Canyon Creek, Texas

How to Use This Canyon Creek, Texas Map

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

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.

CityCanyon Creek
StateTexas (TX)
CountyTravis County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude32.390978
Longitude-97.73938
Population1,249
Density204.9 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Codes78726, 76048
Area Code512, 737, 817, 682
County SeatAustin
School DistrictGranbury Independent School District

About Canyon Creek, Texas

Canyon Creek is a locality in Travis County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,249. The population density is 204.9 people per km². Canyon Creek is located at 32.3910°N, 97.7394°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 78726, 76048.

Canyon Creek maintains a quiet presence upon the uneven limestone shelves that define the northern reaches of the Jollyville Plateau. It lies 1.7 miles south-southwest of Anderson Mill, TX (from Anderson Mill, TX: bearing 212°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west-southwest of Round Rock. The sun here bleaches the cedar and scrub oak until the landscape takes on the pale, dusty hue of bone, while the air remains thin and dry, lacking the humid weight of the lowlands. Residents move through the shade of Trailhead Neighborhood Park, where the Trailhead Park Trail cuts a narrow, winding path through the brush, offering a view of the terrain that has remained largely indifferent to the progress of the world beyond its borders. Only three miles away, the expansive, still surface of Lake Travis mirrors the vast Texas sky, providing a cool relief to the relentless heat that defines the long summer months.

Canyon Creek emerged from the quiet expansion of the region, evolving from sparse ranch land into a residential enclave that relies on the steady pulse of the nearby metropolitan economy. The proximity of the limestone-heavy geography dictates the pace of development, forcing infrastructure to yield to the natural contours of the earth rather than forcing the land to conform to human design. Bull Creek flows just a mile away, its presence felt in the subtle shifts of vegetation and the sudden, verdant pockets of life that persist despite the distance from the Edwards Plateau. Life in Canyon Creek is defined by this understated relationship with the earth, where the rhythm of the day is marked less by clocks than by the shifting shadows of the trees and the cooling of the ground as evening settles over the plateau.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Comanche Peak (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 262° W
  • De Cordova Bend Park (Local Park) — 2.9 mi, 108° E
  • Acton State Park (State Park) — 4.1 mi, 037° NE
  • Hood County News (Monument) — 4.1 mi, 310° NW
  • Gordon Home (Monument) — 4.4 mi, 323° NW
  • Granbury Opera House (Theatre) — 4.5 mi, 322° NW
  • Mt. Loma (Viewpoint) — 5.4 mi, 088° E
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 097° E
  • Stevens Ranch (Park) — 9.0 mi, 150° SE
  • Dinosaur Valley State Park (State Park) — 9.4 mi, 209° SW
  • Ed Young Station (Historic Ruins) — 9.9 mi, 177° S
  • Greetings from Glen Rose (Public Artwork) — 10.8 mi, 185° S
  • Ark II (Conservation Area) — 10.8 mi, 340° N
  • Apatosaurus (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 204° SW
  • Tyrannosaurus rex (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 204° SW
  • Barnard's Mill and Art Museum (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 185° S
  • Rattler Pit Stadium (Stadium) — 11.2 mi, 267° W
  • Chapelhouse Studios (Theatre) — 12.9 mi, 073° E
  • Whitney Lake (Recreation Area) — 14.3 mi, 153° SE
  • Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (Park) — 14.7 mi, 194° S
  • Whitney Point Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 16.7 mi, 145° SE
  • Cinemark Cinema 6 (Cinema) — 19.2 mi, 101° E
  • Johnson County Courthouse Museum (Museum) — 20.8 mi, 098° E
  • Doss Heritage and Culture Center (Museum) — 24.4 mi, 354° N
  • Eagle Stadium (Stadium) — 24.5 mi, 045° NE
  • Museum of the Americas (Museum) — 25.6 mi, 353° N
  • Vintage Car Museum (Museum) — 25.6 mi, 353° N
  • Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland (National Grassland) — 59.0 mi, 004° N · 20k acres

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About This Canyon Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Canyon Creek, Texas. Coordinates: 32.390978, -97.73938. 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 Canyon Creek includes the ZIP code (78726, 76048), telephone area code (512, 737, 817, 682), county seat of Travis County (Austin), and school district assignment (Granbury 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.