La Coma Heights Texas Map
Explore La Coma Heights, 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 La Coma Heights, Texas
How to Use This La Coma Heights, Texas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Coma Heights, 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 La Coma Heights.
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 | La Coma Heights |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Hidalgo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.4394 |
| Longitude | -98.0747 |
| Population | 116 |
| Density | 45.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 78542 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Edinburg |
| School District | Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District |
About La Coma Heights, Texas
La Coma Heights is a locality in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 116. The population density is 45.7 people per km². La Coma Heights is located at 26.4394°N, 98.0747°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78542.La Coma Heights occupies a sun-bleached expanse of flat, scrub-streaked earth where the horizon pulls tight against the sky. It lies 11.0 miles north-northeast of Edinburg, TX (from Edinburg, TX: bearing 30°T), and is situated 7.0 miles north-northeast of Doolittle. The landscape defines itself through an unrelenting clarity, favoring dusty mesquite thickets and wide, open plains that shimmer under the midday heat. Six miles to the west, the flat surface of Delta Lake 1 holds the pale light of the afternoon, acting as a rare anchor in the dry, sprawling terrain. To the north, the land slopes toward the subtle depression of Jackson Pasture, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Sunrise Hill marks the edge of the world in the far distance. At Hargill Pavilion, the stillness is broken only by the dry rasp of wind moving through native grasses, a sound that persists long after the shadows have lengthened and the light has turned a bruised, metallic violet.
Economic life in La Coma Heights traces the quiet necessity of the soil, grounded in the seasonal cycles of agriculture and the maintenance of the vast, arid tracts that surround the residential grid. The proximity to the Santa Cruz Canal, seven miles away, suggests the historical importance of irrigation and the persistent human effort to coax utility from the parched ground. Dust settles on the pickup trucks parked outside storefronts, marking the passage of a day measured by the slow rotation of the sun rather than the frantic pace of larger hubs. Men who have worked this dirt for generations maintain the machinery and the fences, their lives tethered to the rhythm of the harvest and the unpredictable rainfall. There is a spare, unadorned quality to the way the people move here, a recognition that the land demands a certain stoicism, leaving the architecture of La Coma Heights to stand as a functional, modest testament to survival in an environment that offers little shade.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Hargill Pavilion (Local Park) — 3.6 mi, 084° E
- First Baptist Church of Hargill (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 086° E
- Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.5 mi, 021° N · 277k acres
- J.R. Milo Ponce Memorial Park (Local Recreation) — 4.6 mi, 207° SW
- El Sal del Rey (Monument) — 5.8 mi, 358° N
- La Noria Cardenena (Monument) — 6.8 mi, 331° NW
- Delta Lake Park (Local Park) — 7.3 mi, 107° E
- Monte Alto Veterans Park (Local Recreation) — 7.8 mi, 129° SE
- Edinburg Boys & Girls Club (Park) — 9.0 mi, 212° SW
- Edinburg Scenic Wetlands & World Birding Center (Local Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 200° S
- Hidalgo County Historical Museum (Museum) — 10.9 mi, 210° SW
- Plaza Sports Center (Stadium) — 15.4 mi, 202° S
- Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.8 mi, 118° SE
- Topgolf (Attraction) — 18.5 mi, 205° SW
- R&N Thrift (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 214° SW
- Sharyland Rattlers Stadium (Stadium) — 20.3 mi, 219° SW
- Border Theater (Theatre) — 22.0 mi, 225° SW
- Estero Llano Grande State ParK (State Park) — 22.7 mi, 161° S
- Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.7 mi, 189° S · 4,218 acres
- Bentsen - Rio Grande Valley State Park (State Park) — 25.0 mi, 224° SW
- Hawk observation deck (Attraction) — 26.6 mi, 226° SW
- The History of Mexico & Mankind (Public Artwork) — 28.9 mi, 126° SE
- Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 47.1 mi, 070° E · 262k acres
- Stillman House Museum (Museum) — 51.7 mi, 136° SE
- Brownsville Heritage Museum (Museum) — 51.7 mi, 136° SE
- Brownsville Art League Fine Arts Museum (Museum) — 52.0 mi, 136° SE
- Welcome to Texas Sign (Attraction) — 52.9 mi, 135° SE
- Kenedy Ranch Museum of South Texas (Museum) — 56.8 mi, 018° N
- Palmito Hill Battlefield (Viewpoint) — 58.2 mi, 125° SE
- Gravity Park (Theme Park) — 60.8 mi, 112° E
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About This La Coma Heights Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Coma Heights, Texas. Coordinates: 26.4394, -98.0747. 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 La Coma Heights includes the ZIP code (78542), telephone area code (830), county seat of Hidalgo County (Edinburg), and school district assignment (Edinburg 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. |
