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Carlsbad Texas Map

Explore Carlsbad, 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 Carlsbad, Texas

How to Use This Carlsbad, Texas Map

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

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	Carlsbad
State	Texas (TX)
County	Tom Green County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	31.605432
Longitude	-100.643434
Population	622
Density	154.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	76934
Area Code	325
County Seat	San Angelo
School District	Water Valley Independent School District

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About Carlsbad, Texas

Carlsbad is a locality in Tom Green County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 622. The population density is 154.6 people per km². Carlsbad is located at 31.6054°N, 100.6434°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 76934.

Carlsbad emerges from the sun-bleached expanse of West Texas as a quiet collection of structures defined by the vast, open horizon of the plains. It lies 15.6 miles northwest of San Angelo, TX (from San Angelo, TX: bearing 309°T), and is situated 5.9 miles west-northwest of Grape Creek. The land here is marked by a persistent, dry clarity, where the light at dusk turns the native grasses to a dull, weathered copper and the air carries the faint, sharp scent of limestone dust. Only a mile away, the North Concho River carves a shallow, meandering path through the brush, its presence a thin ribbon of resilience in a landscape that otherwise demands much from those who inhabit it. To the west, the distant reach of the Edwards Plateau serves as a hazy, jagged suggestion against the sky, while the local terrain remains defined by the subtle, arid undulations of the basin, distant from any moisture beyond the modest reach of the Kenneth Brown Reservoir four miles to the east.

Carlsbad maintains a deliberate, measured pace, anchored by the modest acreage of Carlsbad Park, which offers a small, quiet space for reflection amidst the scrub. Economic life here remains tied to the cycles of the earth and the necessities of the surrounding ranchlands, where the labor is physical and the rewards are measured in the slow accumulation of seasons. History in Carlsbad is not written in grand monuments but in the endurance of the small outposts and the long, straight lines of road that cut through the silence of the region. Life persists with a certain rugged gravity, far removed from the clutter of more crowded places, leaving the residents to navigate the stark beauty of the plains under a sky that seems to claim the entirety of the world for itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Anti-Tuberculosis Colony No. 1 (McKnight State Tuberculosis Hospital) (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 299° NW
Carlsbad Park (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 159° S
Jones Crossing (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 131° SE
O.C. Fisher Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 4.3 mi, 130° SE
San Angelo State Park (State Park) — 4.3 mi, 130° SE
World War I Peace Monument (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 317° NW
Butterfield Stage Station at Grape Creek (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 114° SE
O. C. Fisher Lake (Recreation Area) — 9.7 mi, 136° SE
Twin Buttes Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 14.2 mi, 172° S
Red Arroyo Trail (Local Conservation Area) — 14.6 mi, 143° SE
International Water Lily Garden (Attraction) — 15.2 mi, 132° SE
ASU Planetarium (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 137° SE
Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum (Museum) — 15.8 mi, 129° SE
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 130° SE
Railway Museum of San Angelo (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 130° SE
E H Danner Museum of Telephony (Museum) — 16.3 mi, 130° SE
Western Little League Baseball Fields (Local Recreation) — 18.7 mi, 155° SE
Dog's Head Trail (El Swato) (Local Conservation Area) — 19.1 mi, 149° SE
Wildcat Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 19.6 mi, 019° N
Welcome to Bronte (Public Artwork) — 28.3 mi, 046° NE
Fort Chadbourne (Historic Castle / Fort) — 37.8 mi, 038° NE
Lake Colorado City State Park (State Park) — 51.7 mi, 341° N
Old Reagan County Courthouse (Historic Ruins) — 56.1 mi, 256° W
Ampitheater (Theatre) — 62.3 mi, 045° NE
CCC stonework (Historic Ruins) — 62.6 mi, 046° NE
Paramount Theater (Theatre) — 79.1 mi, 042° NE

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