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Egypt Texas Map

Explore Egypt, 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 Egypt, Texas

How to Use This Egypt, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	30.221046
Longitude	-95.561609
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	77354, 77436
Area Code	713, 832, 281
County Seat	Wharton

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About Egypt, Texas

Egypt is a locality in Wharton County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Egypt is located at 30.2210°N, 95.5616°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 77354, 77436.

Egypt remains a quiet expanse of flat, alluvial earth where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vast, pale sky. It lies 14.5 miles north of El Campo, TX (from El Campo, TX: bearing 8°T), and is situated 10.3 miles northwest of Wharton. Peach Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its banks lined with dense thickets that offer a cool, shadowed refuge from the relentless afternoon glare. The air here holds a stillness that seems to thicken as the sun dips toward the horizon, casting long, amber shadows across the fields that define the perimeter of Egypt. Five miles away, the D.R. Wintermann Wildlife Management Area serves as a sanctuary for local fauna, preserving a fragment of the wilder, untouched character of the plains that once dominated the region.

Agriculture has long dictated the tempo of daily life in Egypt, with the soil yielding its bounty through the steady, seasonal labor of those who work the land. The economy remains tethered to these fertile stretches, reflecting a history of settlement that values resilience and the quiet patterns of the harvest. While the landscape is largely defined by its open agrarian vistas, the subtle elevation of Peach Break sits sixteen miles to the northwest, a faint, rhythmic interruption to the otherwise level topography. Life here proceeds with a deliberate, measured pace, indifferent to the hurried world beyond, grounded instead by the enduring cycle of the planting and the persistent, slow-moving grace of the local terrain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bluff Creek Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 194° S
Sundance Park (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 150° SE
George Bell Madeley Cemetery (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 072° E
Big Barbara (Public Artwork) — 2.2 mi, 110° E
Cordovan Art School (Arts Centre) — 2.7 mi, 177° S
W. Goodrich Jones State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.7 mi, 100° E
Highlander Walk of Champions (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 120° SE
Oklahoma Cemetery (Monument) — 4.9 mi, 205° SW
The Woodlands Children's Museum (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 136° SE
Carousel (Attraction) — 7.5 mi, 122° SE
21st Century Home Theater & Automation (Theatre) — 8.4 mi, 123° SE
Log House 18557 (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 202° S
Model Railroads Exhibition (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 200° S
1907 Tomball's Caboose (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 200° S
Montgomery County Nature Preserve (Viewpoint) — 10.1 mi, 139° SE
Premiere Cinema 7 Tomball (Cinema) — 10.2 mi, 205° SW
Historic Magnolia Depot (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 266° W
Regal Benders Landing Cinema (IMAX, ScreenX, 4DX, RPX & VIP) (Cinema) — 13.1 mi, 122° SE
Henrys Hideout Historical Pub (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 274° W
Vino Artino (Arts Centre) — 15.6 mi, 187° S
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 16.1 mi, 348° N · 163k acres
Little Lake Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 18.1 mi, 334° NW · 3,956 acres
Waller ISD Stadium (Stadium) — 23.3 mi, 244° SW
Huntsville State Park (State Park) — 26.4 mi, 004° N
Sheldon Lake State Park & Environmental Learning Center (State Park) — 30.8 mi, 136° SE
Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.9 mi, 090° E · 58k acres

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