El Lago Texas Map
Explore El Lago, 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 El Lago, Texas
How to Use This El Lago, Texas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for El Lago, 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 El Lago.
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 | El Lago |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Harris County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 29.563563 |
| Longitude | -95.045207 |
| Population | 3,090 |
| Density | 1852.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 77586 |
| Area Code | 281 |
| County Seat | Houston |
| School District | Clear Creek Independent School District |
About El Lago, Texas
El Lago is a locality in Harris County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,090. The population density is 1852.6 people per km². El Lago is located at 29.5636°N, 95.0452°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. El Lago is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 77586.El Lago occupies a low-lying stretch of land where the humid air of the Gulf coast carries the salt-heavy weight of the tides. It lies 1.2 miles west of Seabrook, TX (from Seabrook, TX: bearing 268°T), and is situated 4.9 miles northeast of League City. The landscape remains defined by the brackish reach of Taylor Bayou, which winds its quiet path through the terrain just a mile away, feeding into the wider expanse of Nassau Bay. Armstrong Park serves as the local green lung, offering a patch of managed earth where the humidity clings to the leaves of native oaks and the soil stays damp underfoot. At dusk, the light here turns a bruised, metallic violet, reflecting off the flat horizons and emphasizing the stillness of a place that feels suspended between the terrestrial prairie and the pull of the water.
El Lago emerged from the mid-century expansion of the aerospace industry, a neighborhood built to house the engineers and visionaries who looked toward the stars while remaining tethered to this coastal plain. The local economy and daily pulse remain tethered to the rhythm of nearby technical innovation, giving the streets a focused, quiet character that contrasts with the wilder, overgrown edges of Pine Gully. Residents often seek the shaded paths of the Armand Bayou Nature Center Trail to escape the hum of modern industry, walking through a corridor of biological diversity that predates the steel and concrete of the surrounding region. Life in El Lago moves with a steady, unadorned efficiency, where the legacy of space exploration lingers in the architecture and the shared ambition of a populace accustomed to looking past the horizon.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Seabrook City Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 047° NE
- Wildwood Park (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 100° E
- Seabrook Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 1.2 mi, 081° E
- Webster Presbyterian Church (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 282° W
- Harris County Boys' School Archeological Site (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 282° W
- Bay Area Museum (Museum) — 1.5 mi, 284° W
- Armand Bayou Coastal Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 296° NW
- Armand Bayou Nature Center (Local Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 332° NW
- Ritson Morris and Elmwood Plantation (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 075° E
- Seabrook Wildlife Refuge and Park (Local Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 056° NE
- 7 Starship Gallery (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 256° W
- Kids Space Place (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 255° W
- Destiny Theater (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 256° W
- Mission Briefing Center (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 256° W
- Spiritus Mundi (Public Artwork) — 3.5 mi, 292° W
- Star Cinema Grill (Cinema) — 6.4 mi, 259° W
- Slocomb Auditorium (Theatre) — 7.8 mi, 329° NW
- Frank J. Brown Heritage Museum and Barn (Museum) — 9.5 mi, 255° W
- Perry House (Museum) — 9.7 mi, 255° W
- Pasadena Little Theater (Theatre) — 10.3 mi, 311° NW
- The Crib (Historic Castle / Fort) — 11.2 mi, 036° NE
- Bayou Safari Wildlife Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 11.8 mi, 219° SW
- Baytown Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.6 mi, 021° N
- Jack Brooks Park (State Park) — 12.9 mi, 182° S
- Pasadena Historical Museum (Museum) — 14.2 mi, 316° NW
- San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.7 mi, 202° S · 193k acres
- Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.6 mi, 081° E · 113k acres
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About This El Lago Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of El Lago, Texas. Coordinates: 29.563563, -95.045207. 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 El Lago includes the ZIP code (77586), telephone area code (281), county seat of Harris County (Houston), and school district assignment (Clear Creek Independent School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
