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Girard Texas Map

Explore Girard, 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 Girard, Texas

How to Use This Girard, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	33.362312
Longitude	-100.662898
Population	53
Density	14.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	79518
Area Code	806
County Seat	Jayton
School District	Jayton-Girard Independent School District

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About Girard, Texas

Girard is a locality in Kent County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 53. The population density is 14.1 people per km². Girard is located at 33.3623°N, 100.6629°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 79518.

Girard stretches across the sun-bleached expanse of the Kent County plains, where the horizon pulls tight against a sky that seems to possess more gravity than the earth itself. It lies 46.9 miles north-northeast of Snyder, TX (from Snyder, TX: bearing 18°T), and is situated 38.2 miles southeast of Wake. The landscape is defined by the subtle, rhythmic shifts of the prairie, carved intermittently by the quiet passage of Duck Creek two miles away and the depression of Sage Draw just three miles distant. Beyond these local contours, the distant silhouette of Devils Backbone provides a jagged, lavender-hued anchor to the western view, while the horizon remains otherwise wide and unforgiving. In the heat of the afternoon, the light turns a brittle, pale gold, illuminating the sparse grasses and the dry, cracked earth that defines this inland territory. Five miles to the east, the stillness of Salt Flat reflects the passing clouds, a solitary, quiet body of water that mirrors the vast, empty clarity of the air.

Girard persists as a quiet remnant of a time when the rhythm of the land dictated the pulse of human endeavor, its economy long anchored to the endurance of dryland agriculture and the quiet persistence of ranching families. The history of the area is written in the fences and the weathered wood of structures that have seen decades of drought and the occasional, violent generosity of a spring rain. While the pace of life remains slow, the influence of the wider region is felt in the migratory patterns of birds traveling toward the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, which lies eighteen miles away as a sanctuary for the winged inhabitants of these plains. Life in Girard is characterized by a profound, solitary independence, where the primary concerns are the moisture in the soil and the steady rotation of the seasons. It is a place where the silence is not an absence of sound, but a presence that demands a particular kind of attention from those who remain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Putoff Canyon (Monument) — 6.4 mi, 143° SE
First National Bank Building (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 147° SE
Double Mountain Salt Works (on Brazos River) (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 147° SE
Arrow Sculture (Public Artwork) — 13.9 mi, 307° NW
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.6 mi, 307° NW · 14k acres
Oriana Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 18.7 mi, 135° SE
Dickens County Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 331° NW
River Crest Road Park (Local Park) — 25.0 mi, 286° W
White River Marina (Local Recreation) — 25.5 mi, 285° W
Lake Alan Henry Wildlife Habitat Area (Local Conservation Area) — 28.5 mi, 226° SW
Sam Wahl Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 32.2 mi, 229° SW
O S Ranch Museum (Museum) — 42.9 mi, 254° W
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (W.T. Martin Ranch) (Park) — 43.2 mi, 172° S
Council Ring (Theatre) — 45.2 mi, 253° W
Motley County Jail Museum (Museum) — 46.0 mi, 349° N
Ralls Historical Museum (Museum) — 47.0 mi, 298° NW
Matador Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 51.9 mi, 009° N
Knox County Museum (Museum) — 54.6 mi, 068° E
Engine 1809 (Attraction) — 56.8 mi, 276° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 57.1 mi, 120° SE
Texas Tech University New Deal Farm - Beef Unit (Recreation Easement) — 65.9 mi, 293° NW
Caprock Canyons Trailway (State Recreation Area) — 66.0 mi, 336° NW
East Lubbock Art House (Arts Centre) — 68.4 mi, 284° W
Santa Land (Attraction) — 69.0 mi, 283° W
Tornado Gallery (Gallery) — 69.7 mi, 283° W
Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Attraction) — 70.5 mi, 287° W
CO-OPt Research + Projects (Arts Centre) — 71.2 mi, 281° W
Allen Theatre (Theatre) — 71.4 mi, 283° W
Copper Breaks State Park (State Park) — 72.5 mi, 045° NE
Caprock Canyons State Park (State Park) — 75.3 mi, 344° N

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