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Cotton Center Texas Map

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.

Interactive Map of Cotton Center, Texas

How to Use This Cotton Center, Texas Map

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	Hale County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.509829
Longitude	-96.121919
Population	180
Density	2.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	79041, 79021, 75418
Area Code	972, 469, 806
County Seat	Plainview

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About Cotton Center, Texas

Cotton Center is a locality in Hale County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 2.0 people per km². Cotton Center is located at 33.5098°N, 96.1219°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 79041, 79021, 75418.

Cotton Center occupies a vast, level expanse of the high plains where the sky acts as a restless, shifting ceiling over the horizon. It lies 21.1 miles southwest of Plainview, TX (from Plainview, TX: bearing 231°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west-southwest of Hale Center. The earth here is a deep, fertile brown, stretched tight across the landscape like a drumhead that holds the sun’s heat long after the light has failed. A traveler might notice how the wind carries a faint, dry scent of turned soil, undisturbed by any significant elevation or the presence of a nearby stream to break the monotony of the flat horizon. Just a mile away, the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge offers a sanctuary for migratory birds, their sudden, frantic wings providing the only vertical motion in an otherwise still and silent geography.

Cotton Center emerged from the ambition of agrarian pioneers who recognized the potential in the resilient, sun-baked earth. The economy remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the harvest, with the local livelihood largely dictated by the success of the crops that drink from the deep aquifers beneath the fields. Life in Cotton Center moves with a deliberate, measured pace, defined by the seasonal turning of the machinery and the steady work of maintaining the infrastructure of a rural outpost. There is a distinct, quiet beauty in the way the dusk light turns the storage silos into geometric silhouettes, emphasizing a culture that values endurance and the stark, unadorned reality of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Moore's Chapel Cemetery (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 325° NW
Bonham State Park (State Park) — 2.3 mi, 336° NW
Arledge Ridge Cemetery (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 281° W
Biggerstaff Cemetery (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 101° E
Powder Creek Park (Local Park) — 5.5 mi, 323° NW
Fort Inglish and Civic Center Park (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 321° NW
Fort Inglish Village (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 321° NW
Caddo National Grassland-Ladonia (State Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 135° SE
Caddo National Grassland (National Grassland) — 6.8 mi, 134° SE · 18k acres
Softball Park (Local Recreation) — 7.0 mi, 325° NW
Baseball Park (Local Recreation) — 7.5 mi, 315° NW
Caddo National Grassland-Bois D'arc (State Conservation Area) — 14.4 mi, 016° N
Skydive Spaceland Dallas (Attraction) — 15.4 mi, 254° W
Cooper Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 22.2 mi, 125° SE
Planetarium (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 146° SE
Top Fun Ranch (Attraction) — 23.8 mi, 240° SW
Lavon Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 24.3 mi, 217° SW
Delta County Patterson Memorial Museum (Museum) — 26.4 mi, 111° E
Audie Murphy and Cotton Museum (Museum) — 26.6 mi, 176° S
Flying Tigers Museum (Museum) — 26.9 mi, 074° E
Deer Statue (Public Artwork) — 27.2 mi, 179° S
The Attic (Attraction) — 27.4 mi, 179° S
Cooper Lake State Park - South Sulphur Unit (State Park) — 28.6 mi, 122° SE
Gamescape by Cinemark (Cinema) — 28.8 mi, 180° S
Nation Theater (Theatre) — 29.0 mi, 289° W
Gambill Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 29.9 mi, 064° NE
Sunset Cove (Viewpoint) — 30.2 mi, 120° SE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Tx (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.1 mi, 080° E · 1,438 acres
Eiffel Tower (Attraction) — 35.6 mi, 075° E
Last Art Gallery (Gallery) — 35.8 mi, 233° SW

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