Explore Etoile, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Etoile, 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 Etoile.
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 | Etoile |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Nacogdoches County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.386852 |
| Longitude | -94.436037 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 75944 |
| Area Code | 903 |
| County Seat | Nacogdoches |
Etoile claims a quiet sovereignty over the landscape where the dark, humic soil of the East Texas timberlands meets the cooling influence of the water. It lies 17.6 miles east of Lufkin, TX (from Lufkin, TX: bearing 79°T), and is situated 19.8 miles southeast of Nacogdoches. Morton Creek threads through the terrain like a frayed silver ribbon, its slow, deliberate current carving small, damp ravines that shelter thickets of willow and sweetgum. The air here holds a heavy, pressurized stillness, often thick with the scent of damp loam and the resinous sharpness of pine needles baking in the afternoon sun. Looking toward the horizon, one might catch the faint, blue-gray suggestion of Moss Hill rising in the distance, a modest anchor for a sky that feels expansive and unburdened. Just a mile away, the vast, glassy expanse of Sam Rayburn Reservoir exerts a gravitational pull on the local atmosphere, softening the heat and offering a reflective mirror for the shifting colors of dusk.
Etoile maintains a rhythm dictated by the land and the long, slow cycles of the surrounding woods. Life here is tethered to the Sam Rayburn Recreation Area, where the boundary between the organized grid of human habitations and the wild, tangled growth of the Angelina National Forest blurs into a singular, green-shadowed expanse. The economy remains rooted in the practicalities of the timber industry and the quiet commerce of those who find their livelihood in the local woods or on the water. History in Etoile is not written in grand monuments, but in the persistent, functional architecture of a place that values endurance over ornament. On late summer evenings, the light catches the metallic glint of the water and the deep, verdant needles of the pines, revealing a beauty that is entirely unconcerned with being noticed, existing simply as an honest response to the geography it inhabits.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Etoile, Texas. Coordinates: 31.386852, -94.436037. 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 Etoile includes the ZIP code (75944), telephone area code (903), county seat of Nacogdoches County (Nacogdoches), and school district assignment.
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. |