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Holiday Beach Texas Map

Explore Holiday Beach, 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 Holiday Beach, Texas

How to Use This Holiday Beach, Texas Map

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

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	Holiday Beach
State	Texas (TX)
County	Aransas County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	28.1689
Longitude	-97.010268
Population	526
Density	126.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	78382
Area Code	830
County Seat	Rockport
School District	Rockport-Fulton Independent School District

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About Holiday Beach, Texas

Holiday Beach is a locality in Aransas County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 526. The population density is 126.1 people per km². Holiday Beach is located at 28.1689°N, 97.0103°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78382.

Holiday Beach maintains a quiet vigil over the low, salt-stung horizon where the flat coastal plains dissolve into the shifting margins of the tide. It lies 10.6 miles north-northeast of Rockport, TX (from Rockport, TX: bearing 15°T), and is situated 19.8 miles north-northeast of Aransas Pass. The landscape here is defined by an expansive, humid stillness, broken only by the rhythmic respiration of the nearby Neptune Harbor and the brackish veins of Copano Creek that wind through the sediment. To the east, the silhouette of Goose Island anchors the view, while the horizon is occasionally punctuated by the distant, hazy rise of The Sand Mounds. The air carries a heavy, mineral scent of brine and damp earth, a sensory tether to the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, which preserves the fragile, marshy periphery from encroaching development. Here, the light at dusk bleeds into a pale, bruised violet, casting long shadows across the reeds and turning the surface of Vinson Slough into a mirror of hammered silver.

Holiday Beach serves as a modest gateway to this aqueous terrain, its economy tethered to the seasonal migrations of anglers and those who find solace in the solitude of the coast. The local rhythm is dictated by the turning of the tides rather than the ticking of a clock, fostering a culture of patient observation that persists despite the changing pressures of the modern world. Residents often venture toward the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge Trailsystem to witness the stark, unadorned beauty of the brush and the sudden, sharp cries of shorebirds navigating the currents. Life in Holiday Beach is characterized by a deliberate simplicity, where the maintenance of docks and the quiet study of the water’s edge remain primary occupations. It is a place where the land does not demand attention, but rather invites a slow, careful recognition of the elemental forces that continuously reshape the shoreline.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.6 mi, 278° W
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.0 mi, 090° E · 298k acres
Lamar Volunteer Fire Department (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 144° SE
Goose Island State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 2.0 mi, 127° SE
Site of the Town of Lamar (Monument) — 2.1 mi, 175° S
The Lamar Cemetery (Monument) — 2.2 mi, 144° SE
Us-Tx-76-1 (Conservation Area) — 4.0 mi, 209° SW
Rockport Birding & Kajak Adventures (Attraction) — 6.6 mi, 194° S
Memorial Park (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 200° S
Copano Cove (Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 211° SW
Rockport Beach Park (Local Park) — 9.4 mi, 189° S
Texas Maritime Museum (Museum) — 10.1 mi, 193° S
Red Fish Bay State Scientific Area (Recreation Easement) — 12.6 mi, 195° S
Refugio County Museum (Museum) — 18.8 mi, 301° NW
Guadalupe Delta Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 20.0 mi, 027° NE
Welder Flats Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 22.5 mi, 061° NE
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 23.2 mi, 187° S
Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center (Viewpoint) — 24.0 mi, 190° S
Ingleside on the Bay Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 24.6 mi, 209° SW
Buffalo Lake Overlook, Guadalupe Delta WMA (Nature Reserve) — 25.5 mi, 025° NE
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 26.5 mi, 263° W
Taft Blackland Museum (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 241° SW
Mustang Island State Park (State Park) — 32.5 mi, 196° S
Giant milk bottle (Public Artwork) — 32.9 mi, 224° SW
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 33.7 mi, 224° SW
Museum Of Hispanic Culture (Museum) — 34.3 mi, 223° SW
K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 34.7 mi, 222° SW
Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 34.8 mi, 223° SW
Port Lavaca Main Street Theatre (Theatre) — 38.8 mi, 037° NE
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 46.1 mi, 199° S · 262k acres

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