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Channing Texas Map

Explore Channing, 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 Channing, Texas

How to Use This Channing, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	35.683654
Longitude	-102.330195
Population	281
Density	109.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	79018
Area Code	806
County Seat	Channing
School District	Channing Independent School District

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About Channing, Texas

Channing is a locality in Hartley County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 281. The population density is 109.4 people per km². Channing is located at 35.6837°N, 102.3302°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Channing is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79018.

Channing occupies a vast, high-plains expanse where the horizon stretches into a thin, vibrating line of amber and slate. It lies 23.6 miles west-southwest of Dumas, TX (from Dumas, TX: bearing 238°T), and is situated 27.9 miles south-southeast of Dalhart. The landscape around Channing consists of open, wind-swept prairie that yields, in the subtle shifts of the terrain, to the modest incision of Middle Cheyenne Creek just a mile away. To the west, the land rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Torrey Peak, while the earth itself maintains a firm, dusty resilience, indifferent to the heat that shimmers off the grasses during the long, luminous afternoons. This is a region defined by its wide, unencumbered sky, where the quality of light at dusk transforms the dry earth into a bruised violet, casting long, lean shadows that seem to anchor the world against the relentless pull of the prairie wind.

History in Channing remains etched into the architecture of the cattle trade, a legacy of the XIT Ranch that once defined the economic pulse of these plains. The rhythm of daily life follows the quiet, deliberate pace of agricultural cycles and the occasional low hum of commerce moving through the county seat, far removed from the clamor of denser urban centers. While the nearby Rita Blanca Tank offers a singular point of stillness in the landscape, the primary character of the locality is found in the stoic endurance of its people and the sparse, functional beauty of its infrastructure. Life here is measured by the seasonal shifts in the golden grain and the persistent, quiet work of those who tend the land, creating a solitary, authentic existence that feels entirely removed from the frantic pace of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Channing United Methodist Church (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 268° W
XIT General Office (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 334° NW
Hartley County Courthouse (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 228° SW
Marshall Cator (Public Artwork) — 11.6 mi, 159° S
The Art Center (Gallery) — 22.8 mi, 061° NE
Lake Rita Blanca Park (Local Park) — 25.1 mi, 339° N
Canadian River Cattle Ranch (Conservation Area) — 26.7 mi, 246° SW
Meyer's Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze (Theme Park) — 27.4 mi, 013° N
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 30.4 mi, 037° NE
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 30.5 mi, 118° SE · 41k acres
DOTS Mini Museum Route 66 (Attraction) — 30.6 mi, 191° S
Magnolia Gas Station (Attraction) — 30.7 mi, 190° S
Milburn Price Culture Museum (Museum) — 30.7 mi, 190° S
Oldham County Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum (Museum) — 30.9 mi, 191° S
Route 66 Mid Point (Attraction) — 34.4 mi, 214° SW
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument (National Monument) — 36.8 mi, 102° E · 1,080 acres
Cadillac Ranch (Attraction) — 39.4 mi, 151° SE
Ross Rogers (Local Recreation) — 40.4 mi, 138° SE
Rita Blanca National Grassland (National Grassland) — 40.5 mi, 360° N · 93k acres
Lake Meredith Aquatic and Wildlife Museum (Museum) — 40.8 mi, 094° E
Scene One Westgate Mall Cinemas (Cinema) — 41.3 mi, 147° SE
Thingology (Gallery) — 41.4 mi, 142° SE
Raburn Studio, Inc (Gallery) — 41.5 mi, 142° SE
Tascosa Drive-In (Cinema) — 41.9 mi, 138° SE
McKinley School (Historic Ruins) — 42.7 mi, 140° SE
John S Stiff Memorial Park (Local Recreation) — 42.9 mi, 147° SE
Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 53.4 mi, 166° S · 15k acres
Kiowa National Grassland (National Grassland) — 54.9 mi, 314° NW · 137k acres
Palo Duro Canyon State Park (State Park) — 59.8 mi, 144° SE
Ute Lake State Park (State Park) — 66.3 mi, 250° W

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