Explore Gary, 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 Gary, 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 Gary.
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 | Gary |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Panola County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.32743 |
| Longitude | -95.724114 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 77316, 75643 |
| Area Code | 713, 832, 903 |
| County Seat | Carthage |
Gary emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed expanse of East Texas as a quiet collection of dwellings anchored to the loamy, humid earth. It lies 26.5 miles east-southeast of Henderson, TX (from Henderson, TX: bearing 109°T), and is situated 9.1 miles south-southwest of Carthage. The air here holds a heavy, resinous scent, lingering long after the sun dips below the horizon to cast long, spindly shadows across the underbrush. Only a mile away, the dark, slow-moving waters of Daniels Ditch carve a path through the silt, while the expansive, still surface of Lake Murvaul sits just two miles distant, reflecting the sky like a polished sheet of hammered tin. To the west, the faint, hazy silhouette of the Elkins Mountains occasionally haunts the far rim of the horizon, a distant reminder of the rugged terrain that exists well beyond these soft, forested plains.
Gary maintains a steady, deliberate pace, defined by the persistence of those who work the timber and the soil in a land where the pace of progress is measured by the growth of pine needles and the seasonal turn of the crop. The legacy of the area is carved into the quietude of the landscape, where the industry of the past—focused on the bounty of the woods and the modest yields of the earth—still informs the modest architecture and the unpretentious character of the local life. Residents often seek the quiet respite of Decker-Hill Park, where the canopy provides a brief sanctuary from the persistent hum of the modern world. Life in Gary remains tethered to these fundamental rhythms, where the simple movement of water through the nearby drainage and the quiet solitude of the surrounding timber define the boundaries of the day.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gary, Texas. Coordinates: 30.32743, -95.724114. 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 Gary includes the ZIP code (77316, 75643), telephone area code (713, 832, 903), county seat of Panola County (Carthage), 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. |