Explore Cotton Center, 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 Cotton Center, 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 Cotton Center.
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 | Cotton Center |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Fannin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.509829 |
| Longitude | -96.121919 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 79041, 79021, 75418 |
| Area Code | 972, 469, 806 |
| County Seat | Bonham |
Cotton Center occupies a vast, sun-drenched expanse where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising against an immense, pale sky. It lies 5.7 miles southeast of Bonham, TX (from Bonham, TX: bearing 145°T), and is situated 11.6 miles northeast of Leonard. Polecat Creek winds through the low-lying terrain near the perimeter, its presence marked by a subtle thickening of brush that offers a verdant relief to the surrounding open plains. Three miles to the north, the modest rise of Snow Hill provides the only meaningful verticality in an otherwise level geography, while the proximity of Bonham State Park, just two miles distant, preserves a quiet corridor of native growth. During the late afternoon, the light here takes on a heavy, golden quality, casting long, thin shadows that lend the earth a strange, tectonic depth before the colors fade into a deep, bruised gray.
Cotton Center remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil, its economy defined by the seasonal cycles of cultivation that have long occupied these fields. The proximity of the Bonham State Park Trail allows for a rare, quiet intersection between the daily labor of the residents and the natural stillness of the land, drawing those who seek a moment of clarity away from the mechanical hum of local machinery. While Stillhouse Hollow sits eleven miles to the south, the influence of the wider landscape is felt most keenly in the way the wind carries the scent of dry grass and turned earth across the center of the locality. Life in Cotton Center proceeds with a deliberate, steady pace, anchored by the resilience of those who recognize that the value of the place resides not in spectacle, but in the enduring, quiet persistence of the work performed beneath the open expanse.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cotton Center, Texas. Coordinates: 33.509829, -96.121919. 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 Cotton Center includes the ZIP code (79041, 79021, 75418), telephone area code (972, 469, 806), county seat of Fannin County (Bonham), and school district assignment.
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. |