Hackberry Texas Map

About Hackberry, Texas

Hackberry is a locality in Denton County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,973. The population density is 1690.5 people per km². Hackberry is located at 33.1497°N, 96.9183°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hackberry is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 79356, 79248, 78956.

Hackberry lies as a quiet expanse of North Texas prairie, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under an unrelenting, expansive sky. It lies 1.3 miles east-southeast of Little Elm, TX (from Little Elm, TX: bearing 122°T), and is situated 5.4 miles west of Frisco. The land here holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun begins its descent, casting long, thin shadows across the dry grasses that shift in the restless wind. Moisture gathers in the low-lying reaches near Lake Lewisville, where the water surface mirrors the bruised purples and golds of a dying day, while the nearby Cottonwood Branch carves a subtle, winding path through the soil. Far to the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of The Backbone serves as a reminder of a more rugged terrain far beyond the reach of the local plains, leaving Hackberry to exist in a space defined by open sky and the quiet endurance of the earth.

History in Hackberry remains etched into the transition from rural agricultural plots to the encroaching reach of modern suburban sprawl. The economy has long since pivoted away from the slow labor of the fields, turning instead toward the service and development needs of a growing population that finds recreation at the Lewisville Recreation Area. Residents who seek the quietude of the natural world often venture toward the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve Trail, finding a brief reprieve from the hum of commerce in the shade of dense thickets. The rhythm of daily life is marked by the steady movement of vehicles on the blacktop and the subtle shifts in the light as it plays across the limestone-flecked ground, offering a perspective that favors the practical and the present over the romanticism of the past.

About This Hackberry Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hackberry, Texas. Coordinates: 33.149748, -96.918313. 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 Hackberry includes the ZIP code (79356, 79248, 78956), telephone area code (830, 214, 469, 972), county seat of Denton County (Denton), and school district assignment (Little Elm Independent School District).

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.