Cottonwood Texas Map

About Cottonwood, Texas

Cottonwood is a locality in Erath County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 181. The population density is 49.1 people per km². Cottonwood is located at 32.4514°N, 96.4015°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cottonwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 77872, 77808, 76691.

Cottonwood spreads across the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the Texas plains, where the horizon feels like a physical weight pressing down on the tall, dry grasses. It lies 10.4 miles south-southwest of Stephenville, TX (from Stephenville, TX: bearing 209°T), and is situated 3.1 miles east of Dublin. Cottonwood Creek cuts a vein through the parched earth, its seasonal flow carving a shallow, winding path that dictates the movement of the local wildlife and the limits of the surrounding mesquite scrub. The light here is sharp and unrelenting, bleaching the color from the wooden fence posts and turning the distant, hazy outline of the Edwards Plateau into a ghost of blue against the pale sky. Only four miles away, the Soil Conservation Service Site 14 Reservoir holds a quiet, stagnant stillness, reflecting the wide-open sky in a glassy surface that rarely stirs unless a hawk descends to break the silence.

Agricultural cycles define the pulse of Cottonwood, as the rhythm of the planting and harvest seasons dictates the slow, deliberate pace of daily life. The economy remains anchored to the land, tethered to the dust and the resilience of those who cultivate the heavy, dark soil despite the fickle nature of the rain. Residents often seek a quiet sanctuary at the Dublin Public Library, a place that serves as a modest intellectual anchor amidst the expansive, lonely stretches of ranch land. History in Cottonwood is not found in grand monuments, but in the faded paint of old barns and the steady persistence of families who have worked these same acres for generations, finding a stubborn beauty in the way the dusk turns the prairie into a sea of deep, bruised violet.

About This Cottonwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cottonwood, Texas. Coordinates: 32.451381, -96.401538. 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 Cottonwood includes the ZIP code (77872, 77808, 76691), telephone area code (325, 214, 469), county seat of Erath County (Stephenville), and school district assignment (Scurry-Rosser Independent School District).

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.