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Era Texas Map

Explore Era, 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 Era, Texas

How to Use This Era, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	33.495389
Longitude	-97.288073
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	76238
Area Code	817
County Seat	Gainesville

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About Era, Texas

Era is a locality in Cooke County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Era is located at 33.4954°N, 97.2881°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 76238.

Era sits upon the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the North Texas prairie, a place where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a wire pulled against the sky. It lies 12.7 miles southwest of Gainesville, TX (from Gainesville, TX: bearing 225°T), and is situated 11.3 miles northwest of Sanger. The landscape here is defined by a quiet, persistent gravity, where the earth gives way to the gentle, rhythmic incisions of Duck Creek, which winds its path just a mile from the center of the settlement. Five miles to the west, the subtle rise of The Backbone breaks the monotony of the plains, its silhouette casting long, cooling shadows into the depths of Norfleet Hollow as the afternoon light begins to fail. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain remains open and exposed, occasionally punctuated by the distant, shimmering surface of Sarles Lake, which holds the light of the sun in a steady, silver gaze.

Era maintains a quiet, agrarian pulse, its economy rooted in the deep soil and the enduring labor of those who work the surrounding acreage. The history of the place is not written in grand monuments, but in the slow, seasonal turn of the land and the steady maintenance of long-standing homesteads that define the local character. Not far from the main thoroughfares, the quietude of the Pittman Ranch provides a sanctuary where the native grasses hold the memory of a wilder, unplowed state. Life here moves with the patience of a turning season, unhurried by the clamor of the outside world, where the primary concerns remain the health of the crops and the steady, reliable rhythm of the weather.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Era, The Town of (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 309° NW
Thomason-Scott House (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 246° SW
Pittman Ranch (Park) — 6.1 mi, 299° NW
Valley View (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 094° E
Ray Roberts Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 7.8 mi, 106° E
Myra Baptist Church Bell (Public Artwork) — 9.1 mi, 351° N
Keneteso Park (Local Park) — 10.9 mi, 048° NE
Rocking K Ranch (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 266° W
Ray Roberts Lake State Park (State Park) — 11.4 mi, 113° SE
Leonard Park & Frank Buck Zoo (Local Park) — 11.5 mi, 042° NE
Spotted Donkey (Attraction) — 11.5 mi, 042° NE
Ostrich (Attraction) — 11.5 mi, 042° NE
Ring-Tailed Lemur (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 042° NE
John Porter Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 11.9 mi, 150° SE
Morton Museum of Cooke County (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 043° NE
Sante Fe Depot Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 043° NE
Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland (National Grassland) — 13.8 mi, 239° SW · 20k acres
Corral (Viewpoint) — 15.0 mi, 112° E
Love Valley Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.6 mi, 025° NE
Explorium (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 158° S
CH Collins Stadium (Stadium) — 19.0 mi, 148° SE
Cross Timbers Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 19.5 mi, 243° SW
Lewisville Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 20.0 mi, 136° SE
Denton Independent School District Stadium (Stadium) — 20.6 mi, 156° SE
Texas First Ladies Historic Costume Collection Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 154° SE
Redbud Theater Complex (Theatre) — 20.7 mi, 154° SE
Sky Theater Planetarium (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 158° S
Winspear Performance Hall (Theatre) — 21.4 mi, 159° S
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.5 mi, 297° NW · 1,644 acres
Lake Murray State Resort Park (State Park) — 38.8 mi, 019° N

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