La Ward Texas Map

About La Ward, Texas

La Ward is a locality in Jackson County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 176. The population density is 83.7 people per km². La Ward is located at 28.8439°N, 96.4641°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. La Ward is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 77970.

La Ward emerges from the flat, expansive coastal plain as a quiet convergence of golden grasses and sudden, humid gusts that carry the salt-tinged memory of the distant tide. It lies 18.6 miles north-northeast of Port Lavaca, TX (from Port Lavaca, TX: bearing 32°T), and is situated 14.4 miles southeast of Edna. The horizon here is vast and unencumbered, drawing the eye toward the distant silhouette of Old Red Bluff, which rises with a stoic, weathered patience above the surrounding prairie. Nearby, the banks of Keller Creek provide a verdant, shadowed respite where the water moves with a sluggish, deliberate grace, carving subtle lines through the silt before eventually winding toward the brackish reaches of Smugglers Bayou. The light at dusk settles over the fields in long, bruised ribbons of violet and ochre, casting an antique glow that softens the sharp edges of the fence lines and the distant, cooling surface of Lake Texana.

La Ward maintains a tether to the slow, mechanical pulse of the oil patch and the enduring labor of the surrounding agricultural lands, where the rhythm of the day is dictated by the steady turning of the seasons rather than the frantic pace of modern industry. The legacy of the region lingers in the quiet persistence of its inhabitants, who find recreation in the shaded stillness of the Lake Texana or traverse the paths of the Lake Texana State Park Trail to witness the seasonal migration of birds against the wide, unobstructed sky. Life in La Ward favors the modest and the authentic, where the economy remains grounded in the soil and the subterranean energy that has long fueled the local spirit. Even as the modern world encroaches, the locale retains a distinctive, spare clarity, defined by the interplay between the deep, dark earth and the relentless, open expanse of the Texas canopy.

About This La Ward Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Ward, Texas. Coordinates: 28.843877, -96.464139. 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 Ward includes the ZIP code (77970), telephone area code (409), county seat of Jackson County (Edna), and school district assignment (Industrial 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.