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Cat Spring Texas Map

Explore Cat Spring, 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 Cat Spring, Texas

How to Use This Cat Spring, Texas Map

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

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	Cat Spring
State	Texas (TX)
County	Austin County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	29.845507
Longitude	-96.325799
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	78933
Area Code	830
County Seat	Bellville

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About Cat Spring, Texas

Cat Spring is a locality in Austin County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Cat Spring is located at 29.8455°N, 96.3258°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78933.

Cat Spring emerges from the quiet, verdant expanse of the Texas prairie, where the land stretches out in long, sun-drenched swells of earth and native grass. It lies 22.6 miles south of Brenham, TX (from Brenham, TX: bearing 169°T), and is situated 8.3 miles south-southwest of Bellville. The local terrain finds its rhythm in the slow, persistent meander of Little Bernard Creek, a waterway that cuts through the soil with a quiet gravity, drawing the eye toward the distant silhouette of Red Hill rising against the sky. In the cool hours of the morning, the light catches the dew on the open fields, turning the grasses into a pale, shifting silver that feels older than the fences marking the boundaries of the pastures. Further afield, the landscape deepens into the protected sanctuary of the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, a space where the wind carries the unhurried sounds of a wilder, undisturbed horizon.

German settlers first arrived here in the nineteenth century, leaving an imprint on the architecture and the social order that remains visible in the sturdy, deliberate construction of the local agricultural halls. These wooden structures serve as the anchors of an economy built on the slow turning of seasons and the endurance of ranching, where the work of the day is dictated by the needs of the livestock and the shifting moods of the sky. Life in Cat Spring follows the cadence of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of the larger world, with a stillness that gathers in the corners of the old meeting halls and the quiet stretches of road. While the water of Lake Fayette waits twenty-four miles away, the character of this place is defined by the immediate soil beneath one’s boots and the enduring, quiet persistence of a community that has learned to thrive in the wide, open spaces of the inland plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Town of Cat Spring (Monument) — 1.3 mi, 009° N
Elemelech Swearingen (Monument) — 3.1 mi, 090° E
Millheim Harmonie Verein (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 064° NE
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.7 mi, 171° S · 21k acres
City Park (Local Park) — 8.4 mi, 034° NE
Chesley Recreational Park (Local Recreation) — 8.4 mi, 027° NE
Clark Park (Local Park) — 8.8 mi, 028° NE
Mill Creek Mitigation Bank - Kenney Property (Park) — 9.2 mi, 356° N
Stephen F Austin State Park (State Park) — 12.3 mi, 097° E
San Felipe de Austin (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 109° E
1824 Well (Attraction) — 13.9 mi, 101° E
Stephen F. Austin (Attraction) — 13.9 mi, 101° E
St Mary's Grotto (Attraction) — 15.6 mi, 114° SE
Tate-Senftenberg-Brandon House Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 233° SW
Stafford Bank and Opera House (Theatre) — 16.1 mi, 233° SW
Alley Log Cabin and Antique Tool Museum (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 233° SW
Prairie Edge Museum (Museum) — 17.8 mi, 181° S
Columbus Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 18.7 mi, 253° W
Mill Creek Mitigation Bank - Shelby Property (Park) — 19.3 mi, 314° NW
Fayetteville Area Heritage Museum (Museum) — 21.4 mi, 281° W
Back Lot Gallery (Gallery) — 22.5 mi, 349° N
Brenham Fine Arts League & Gallery (Gallery) — 22.6 mi, 349° N
Giddings-Wilkin House Museum (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 350° N
D.R. Wintermann Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 24.9 mi, 168° S
Rifle Association Hall (Registered Battlefield) — 26.8 mi, 306° NW
Waller ISD Stadium (Stadium) — 29.4 mi, 057° NE
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.8 mi, 145° SE · 193k acres
Lake Somerville Trailway State Park (State Park) — 37.0 mi, 329° NW
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 54.5 mi, 035° NE · 163k acres
Little Lake Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 55.6 mi, 041° NE · 3,956 acres

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