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Eagle Lake Texas Map

Explore Eagle Lake, 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 Eagle Lake, Texas

How to Use This Eagle Lake, Texas Map

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

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	Eagle Lake
State	Texas (TX)
County	Colorado County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	29.589684
Longitude	-96.333577
Population	3,442
Density	453.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	77434
Area Code	281
County Seat	Columbus
School District	Rice Consolidated Independent School District

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About Eagle Lake, Texas

Eagle Lake is a locality in Colorado County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,442. The population density is 453.4 people per km². Eagle Lake is located at 29.5897°N, 96.3336°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Eagle Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 77434.

Eagle Lake occupies a wide expanse of the Texas prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and unrelenting under a sky of pale, washed-out indigo. It lies 27.0 miles west-southwest of Fulshear, TX (from Fulshear, TX: bearing 255°T), and is situated 16.9 miles southwest of Sealy. The landscape here is defined by the subtle, persistent presence of the land, an open country where the light at dusk turns the tall grasses into a sea of burnished copper. To the south, the terrain holds a quiet tension, marked by the elevation of Middle Brook Hill rising six miles away, while the moisture of the earth gathers toward the banks of West Bernard Creek, a modest watercourse carving its path through the silt just two miles from the center. Within the footprint of Eagle Lake Municipal Park, the trees offer a necessary respite from the sun, their shadows lengthening across the ground in the long, slow afternoons that characterize this corner of the state.

History remains a quiet weight in Eagle Lake, echoing the transit of travelers who once moved along the nearby Old Spanish Trail, a route that reminds the modern visitor of the long, arduous paths cut through this territory by earlier generations. The local economy draws its strength from the cycles of the earth, with agriculture serving as the primary pulse that dictates the pace of the day and the rhythm of the seasons. Beyond the fields, the quietude is interrupted only by the rustle of wind through the vegetation, a sound as constant as the distant, hazy outline of Horseshoe Gully nine miles out. Life in Eagle Lake moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, reflecting a culture deeply attuned to the soil and the persistent, unadorned beauty of the inland plain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hotel Dallas, 1912 (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 031° NE
Town of Eagle Lake (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 211° SW
Rice Culture in Colorado County (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 194° S
Eagle Lake Muncipal Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 245° SW
Prairie Edge Museum (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 162° S
Open Space (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 307° NW
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.4 mi, 040° NE · 21k acres
D.R. Wintermann Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 142° SE
Us-Tx-132-1 (Conservation Area) — 10.9 mi, 116° SE
Tate-Senftenberg-Brandon House Museum (Museum) — 14.7 mi, 303° NW
Stafford Bank and Opera House (Theatre) — 14.8 mi, 303° NW
Alley Log Cabin and Antique Tool Museum (Museum) — 14.8 mi, 302° NW
Egypt Plantation Museum (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 152° SE
St Mary's Grotto (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 052° NE
San Felipe de Austin (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 046° NE
Stephen F Austin State Park (State Park) — 20.2 mi, 041° NE
1824 Well (Attraction) — 20.6 mi, 043° NE
Stephen F. Austin (Attraction) — 20.6 mi, 043° NE
Columbus Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 21.3 mi, 305° NW
20th Century Technology Museum (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 139° SE
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.1 mi, 118° SE · 193k acres
Showplace 3 (Cinema) — 27.5 mi, 175° S
Jordan High School Perfprming Arts Center (Theatre) — 30.2 mi, 072° E
Xscape Theaters (Cinema) — 30.7 mi, 076° E
Mirabeau Lamar (Public Artwork) — 34.4 mi, 091° E
Brazos Bend State Park (State Park) — 43.8 mi, 108° E
Mad Island Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 63.6 mi, 166° S
Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 66.9 mi, 130° SE
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 69.9 mi, 027° NE · 163k acres
Little Lake Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 70.2 mi, 032° NE · 3,956 acres

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