La Paloma Texas Map
Explore La Paloma, 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 Paloma, Texas
How to Use This La Paloma, Texas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Paloma, 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 Paloma.
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 Paloma |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Cameron County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.051962 |
| Longitude | -97.655253 |
| Population | 3,218 |
| Density | 576.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 78586 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Brownsville |
| School District | San Benito Consolidated Independent School District |
About La Paloma, Texas
La Paloma is a locality in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,218. The population density is 576.8 people per km². La Paloma is located at 26.0520°N, 97.6553°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78586.La Paloma emerges from the flat, scrub-brushed expanse of the South Texas plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky. It lies 6.4 miles south-southwest of San Benito, TX (from San Benito, TX: bearing 201°T), and is situated 6.9 miles west of Rancho Viejo. The horizon stretches thin and wide, broken only by the occasional silhouette of mesquite trees that catch the amber light of late afternoon, casting long, spindly shadows across the dust. Just a mile to the east, the Rio Grande carves its slow, deliberate path through the silt, a constant presence that feeds the surrounding fields and sustains the deep, verdant patches of agriculture that contrast sharply with the paler, sun-bleached grasses. Three miles away, the quiet surface of Cameron Company WCID 2 Reservoir 2 reflects the vast, cloudless dome above, offering a stillness that seems to settle over the entire region as the heat of the day begins to dissipate into the cooling evening air.
La Paloma bears the quiet weight of a history rooted in the rhythmic cycles of the harvest and the persistent labor of the land. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, with the daily life of the residents organized around the seasonal demands of the fields and the steady, unpretentious commerce of the rural interior. Those seeking the outdoors find a modest refuge at La Paloma Community Park, where the local pace slows further beneath the shade of native trees. While the distant, arid Tule Lake Bed lies twelve miles out and the Loma Alta peak remains a faint, hazy suggestion on the far horizon, the life of La Paloma is defined by the immediate, tactile reality of the fertile basin. It is a place where the air carries the faint scent of rain-dampened earth and the persistence of a culture that values the steady, quiet endurance of the work at hand.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- La Paloma Community Park (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 264° W
- Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.4 mi, 180° S · 277k acres
- Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 142° SE
- Don Jose Esparanza Community Park (Local Recreation) — 2.4 mi, 140° SE
- Esparza Cemetery (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 137° SE
- Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 318° NW
- Matanza of 1915 (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 045° NE
- Stookey Park (Local Park) — 5.5 mi, 027° NE
- St. Benedict's Church (Monument) — 5.6 mi, 013° N
- Bobby Morrow Stadium (Stadium) — 6.2 mi, 005° N
- Resaca de la Palma State Park (State Park) — 6.3 mi, 123° SE
- Ramsey Park (Local Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 357° N
- Golden Age of Hollywood & Mexican Cinema in Harlingen, Texas (Public Artwork) — 10.0 mi, 346° N
- Bowman Stadium (Stadium) — 12.0 mi, 356° N
- Stillman House Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 137° SE
- Brownsville Heritage Museum (Museum) — 14.4 mi, 137° SE
- Brownsville Art League Fine Arts Museum (Museum) — 14.7 mi, 137° SE
- Welcome to Texas Sign (Attraction) — 15.6 mi, 135° SE
- Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.6 mi, 061° NE · 287k acres
- Estero Llano Grande State ParK (State Park) — 18.9 mi, 285° W
- Palmito Hill Battlefield (Viewpoint) — 22.8 mi, 106° E
- Port Isabel Historical Museum (Museum) — 27.8 mi, 086° E
- Treasures of the Gulf Museum (Museum) — 27.8 mi, 086° E
- Starbase Sign (Attraction) — 29.3 mi, 099° E
- Boca Chica State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 29.5 mi, 098° E
- Pier 19 (Attraction) — 30.2 mi, 086° E
- Gravity Park (Theme Park) — 30.4 mi, 083° E
- Topgolf (Attraction) — 35.3 mi, 287° W
- Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 41.0 mi, 031° NE · 262k acres
- Border Theater (Theatre) — 43.1 mi, 285° W
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About This La Paloma Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Paloma, Texas. Coordinates: 26.051962, -97.655253. 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 Paloma includes the ZIP code (78586), telephone area code (830), county seat of Cameron County (Brownsville), and school district assignment (San Benito 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. |
