Cottonwood Texas Map

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.

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 McLennan County (Waco), 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.