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Cross Plains Texas Map

Explore Cross Plains, 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 Cross Plains, Texas

How to Use This Cross Plains, Texas Map

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

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	Cross Plains
State	Texas (TX)
County	Callahan County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.126249
Longitude	-99.165342
Population	899
Density	289.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	76443
Area Code	254
County Seat	Baird
School District	Cross Plains Independent School District

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About Cross Plains, Texas

Cross Plains is a locality in Callahan County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 899. The population density is 289.3 people per km². Cross Plains is located at 32.1262°N, 99.1653°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cross Plains is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 76443.

Cross Plains emerges from the expansive prairie as a quiet confluence of light and raw, terrestrial persistence. It lies 30.6 miles north-northwest of Brownwood, TX (from Brownwood, TX: bearing 341°T), and is situated 32.0 miles east-southeast of Potosi. The land here stretches in subtle folds of earth and scrub, defined by the slow, seasonal pulse of Turkey Creek, which traces a winding path of riparian life only a mile away. Three miles to the north, the waters of Soil Conservation Service Site 7 Reservoir gather in the stillness, reflecting a sky that seems to possess a greater, more profound depth than the horizon itself. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Edwards Plateau lingers in the memory of the landscape, the immediate world remains grounded in the quiet endurance of sun-bleached grasses and the patient growth of mesquite.

Economic life in Cross Plains retains the steady, rhythmic gravity of an oil-touched past, where the legacy of the early twentieth-century boom still informs the character of the streets. This is a place where the deliberate pace of daily life is measured not by the clock, but by the turning of the soil and the maintenance of a heritage built on grit and ingenuity. Travelers passing through may find themselves drawn to the literary resonance of the area, a quiet nod to the writers who once inhabited these plains, finding beauty in the stark, unadorned truth of the environment. Far removed from the clamor of the world, existence here is defined by a deep, local constancy, occasionally punctuated by excursions to the rugged trails of Lake Brownwood State Park, where the rugged topography offers a brief, expansive relief from the surrounding flatlands.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Cross Plains Cemetery (Monument) — 0.3 mi, 253° W
Home of Robert E. Howard (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 229° SW
Pioneer Cemetery (Monument) — 5.2 mi, 111° E
Lake Brownwood State Park (State Park) — 19.9 mi, 159° S
Clyde Lake Park (Local Park) — 22.2 mi, 306° NW
McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 22.9 mi, 132° SE
Callahan County Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 22.9 mi, 324° NW
Muse Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 25.2 mi, 130° SE
Austin McCloud Appellate Court Museum (Museum) — 27.8 mi, 047° NE
Ol' Rip (Attraction) — 27.8 mi, 047° NE
Ringling Lake Park (Local Park) — 28.0 mi, 043° NE
Campbell's Tomato Soup (Public Artwork) — 29.0 mi, 049° NE
Regal Heartland (Cinema) — 29.3 mi, 156° SE
Hords Creek Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 29.7 mi, 228° SW
Brown County Museum of History (Museum) — 29.9 mi, 159° S
Lyric Theatre (Theatre) — 30.0 mi, 159° S
Martin & Frances Lehnis Railroad Musuem (Museum) — 30.3 mi, 159° S
Comanche County Museum (Museum) — 33.3 mi, 117° SE
Proctor Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 36.5 mi, 103° E
Lake Kirby Park (Local Recreation) — 36.9 mi, 298° NW
Grover Nelson Park (Local Recreation) — 37.2 mi, 306° NW
Elmer Gray Stadium (Stadium) — 39.8 mi, 307° NW
Paramount Theater (Theatre) — 40.1 mi, 304° NW
Petrified Tree (Attraction) — 41.2 mi, 306° NW
Myers Memorial Arena (Stadium) — 41.8 mi, 306° NW
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 42.2 mi, 281° W
CCC Stonework (Historic Ruins) — 42.3 mi, 281° W
Santa Anna (Conservation Area) — 45.1 mi, 190° S
Roger R Fawcett Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 59.7 mi, 056° NE

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