Explore Green Valley Farms, 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 Green Valley Farms, 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 Green Valley Farms.
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 | Green Valley Farms |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Cameron County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.12202 |
| Longitude | -97.560543 |
| Population | 655 |
| Density | 65.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 78586 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Brownsville |
| School District | Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District |
Green Valley Farms occupies a stretch of level, sun-drenched plains where the horizon expands with an unyielding, geometric clarity. It lies 4.4 miles east of San Benito, TX (from San Benito, TX: bearing 99°T), and is situated 9.7 miles east-southeast of Harlingen. The air here holds a dry, persistent warmth, carrying the scent of parched earth and the faint, metallic tang of irrigation systems that sustain the sprawling fields. To the west, the subtle rise of Loma Alta breaks the monotony of the flatlands, a lonely sentinel watching over the arid expanse. The proximity of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge introduces a sudden, dense reprieve of brush and thicket, providing a sanctuary for migratory birds that navigate the thermal currents above the brush. While the Tule Lake Bed remains a parched depression seven miles distant, the landscape maintains a quiet, stoic resilience, illuminated by a harsh, golden light that flattens shadows and turns the midday sky into an opaque, pale dome.
Green Valley Farms draws its vitality from the deep, fertile soil that has defined the regional economy for generations, anchoring the community in the rhythms of intensive agriculture and labor. The flow of the Arroyo Colorado, winding six miles away, serves as a vital artery for the irrigation networks that allow rows of crops to thrive despite the unforgiving climate. History here is written in the furrows of the fields and the stoic endurance of families who transformed the scrubland into a productive grid of productivity. Residents often travel toward the Arroyo Hike and Bike Trail, eight miles out, to find a rare path through the dense vegetation, or look toward the distant shimmer of the Resaca de La Palma Reservoir when the heat becomes truly oppressive. The pace of life in Green Valley Farms remains tethered to the harvest cycles, a steady, measured existence where the passage of time is marked not by clocks, but by the subtle shifting colors of the ripening fields under the relentless Texas sun.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Green Valley Farms, Texas. Coordinates: 26.12202, -97.560543. 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 Green Valley Farms includes the ZIP code (78586), telephone area code (830), county seat of Cameron County (Brownsville), and school district assignment (Los Fresnos Consolidated 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. |