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Cottonwood Texas Map

Explore Cottonwood, 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 Cottonwood, Texas

How to Use This Cottonwood, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.451381
Longitude	-96.401538
Population	181
Density	49.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	77872, 77808, 76691, 75158
Area Code	325, 214, 469
County Seat	Waco
School District	Scurry-Rosser Independent School District

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About Cottonwood, Texas

Cottonwood is a locality in McLennan 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 emerges from the flat, sun-bleached expanse of the Texas interior, defined by the persistent, winding path of Cottonwood Creek as it cuts a narrow, verdant vein through the stubborn earth. It lies 16.6 miles north-northeast of Bellmead, TX (from Bellmead, TX: bearing 14°T), and is situated 3.4 miles east-northeast of West. The landscape here is one of patient endurance, where the horizon stretches wide and unobstructed, inviting the fierce, honeyed light of late afternoon to flatten the shadows against the dry grasses. Only ten miles away, the waters of Aquilla Lake hold the sky in a mirror of pale, fractured blue, providing a quiet reprieve from the heat that otherwise dictates the cadence of the day. Three miles out, the quietude of West City Park offers a thin canopy of shade, where the air smells faintly of baked soil and the dry, sweet scent of dormant prairie weeds.

Cottonwood preserves a modest, grounded history, reflecting the agrarian ambitions of those who first broke this ground to plant their lives alongside the water. The local economy persists in a steady, rhythmic alignment with the land, favoring the cultivation of crops and the maintenance of open spaces over the frantic expansion of more crowded hubs. Life in Cottonwood moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, where the passing of a train or the seasonal shifting of the wind across the plains serves as the primary measurement of time. Even now, one might sense the lingering echoes of early settlers in the way the architecture clings to the ground, built low and sturdy to withstand the seasonal intensity of the plains, ensuring that Cottonwood remains a singular, quiet point of focus in a vast and unchanging geography.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Cottonwood Baptist Church (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 061° NE
Cottonwood Cemetery (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 007° N
Rosser Depot of the Texas Midland Railroad (Monument) — 3.2 mi, 284° W
Kaufman Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 11.3 mi, 031° NE
City Lakes Park (Local Park) — 11.8 mi, 034° NE
Cedar Creek Islands Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.1 mi, 108° E
Ennis Railroad and Cultural Heritage Museum (Museum) — 16.3 mi, 226° SW
Simonds Lake (Local Park) — 16.6 mi, 322° NW
Oldest Wilmer Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 17.2 mi, 312° NW
Bardwell Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 17.8 mi, 236° SW
Bardwell Lake (Recreation Area) — 18.3 mi, 236° SW
Cottonwood Creek Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 18.5 mi, 307° NW
Hometown Cinema (Cinema) — 18.7 mi, 021° N
SwCC Entrance Sign (Attraction) — 20.8 mi, 019° N
Old Tank (Public Artwork) — 20.8 mi, 017° N
Terrell Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 20.9 mi, 017° N
Trinity River Greenbelt (Local Recreation) — 22.4 mi, 314° NW
Purtis Creek State Park (State Park) — 23.4 mi, 104° E
Light Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame Museum (Museum) — 24.7 mi, 332° NW
Pioneer Village of Navarro County (Museum) — 25.0 mi, 190° S
Snake Encounters (Attraction) — 26.4 mi, 294° NW
Tiger Stadium (Stadium) — 26.4 mi, 195° S
Pearce Museum (Museum) — 26.4 mi, 192° S
Falconry Stage (Theatre) — 29.1 mi, 258° W
Roundabout Stage (Theatre) — 29.2 mi, 257° W
Texas Star (Attraction) — 30.6 mi, 317° NW
Dallas Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 30.8 mi, 317° NW
Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 35.2 mi, 150° SE
Cedar Hill State Park (State Park) — 35.3 mi, 289° W
Neches River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 68.2 mi, 125° SE · 16k acres

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