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Lamar Texas Map

Explore Lamar, 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 Lamar, Texas

How to Use This Lamar, Texas Map

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

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	Lamar
State	Texas (TX)
County	Shelby County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	28.14034
Longitude	-96.987818
Population	724
Density	91.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	75935, 78382
Area Code	903, 830
County Seat	Center
School District	Rockport-Fulton Independent School District

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About Lamar, Texas

Lamar is a locality in Shelby County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 724. The population density is 91.3 people per km². Lamar is located at 28.1403°N, 96.9878°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 75935, 78382.

Lamar occupies a quiet expanse of inland prairie where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a pale, expansive sky. It lies 26.5 miles east-northeast of Nacogdoches, TX (from Nacogdoches, TX: bearing 62°T), and is situated 4.6 miles west-southwest of Center. Irish Creek cuts a narrow, winding path through the landscape, its banks lined with dense thickets of brush and weathered hardwoods that offer a cool respite from the heat of the afternoon sun. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouettes of the Matlock Hills emerge as a blue-gray smudge against the dusk, providing a distant boundary to the plains. Five miles away, the surface of Soil Conservation Service Site 15 Reservoir catches the waning light, turning the water into a sheet of hammered copper that mirrors the slow drift of clouds.

Lamar remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil and the seasons, its economy rooted in the steady, quiet work of agriculture that has defined this territory for generations. Beyond the patchwork fields and fenced pastures, the local character is marked by a persistent, unassuming industriousness, visible in the way light filters through the dust of the roads as the day fades. Residents gather for recreation at Center Softball Park, where the sounds of the game carry clearly across the open ground, grounding the social life of the place in the simple, ritualized movements of the sport. The history of Lamar is written in these enduring patterns of land use and the persistent flow of Irish Creek, which continues to shape the contours of the daily experience with a quiet, unyielding grace.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Goose Island State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 0.1 mi, 180° S
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.1 mi, 180° S
John Fagan (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 335° NW
Stella Maris Chapel (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 342° N
The Lamar Cemetery (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 338° N
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.3 mi, 032° NE · 298k acres
Us-Tx-76-1 (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 244° SW
Rockport Birding & Kajak Adventures (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 214° SW
Rockport Beach Park (Local Park) — 7.8 mi, 201° S
Memorial Park (Local Park) — 8.0 mi, 214° SW
Copano Cove (Conservation Area) — 8.5 mi, 226° SW
Texas Maritime Museum (Museum) — 8.7 mi, 205° SW
Red Fish Bay State Scientific Area (Recreation Easement) — 11.2 mi, 205° SW
Refugio County Museum (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 304° NW
Guadalupe Delta Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.3 mi, 022° N
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 21.5 mi, 191° S
Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center (Viewpoint) — 22.3 mi, 194° S
Welder Flats Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 22.4 mi, 054° NE
Ingleside on the Bay Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 23.6 mi, 214° SW
Buffalo Lake Overlook, Guadalupe Delta WMA (Nature Reserve) — 26.8 mi, 021° N
Taft Blackland Museum (Museum) — 27.1 mi, 246° SW
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 27.7 mi, 267° W
Mustang Island State Park (State Park) — 31.0 mi, 200° S
Giant milk bottle (Public Artwork) — 32.5 mi, 228° SW
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 33.3 mi, 228° SW
Museum Of Hispanic Culture (Museum) — 33.9 mi, 227° SW
K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 34.3 mi, 226° SW
Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 34.3 mi, 226° SW
Port Lavaca Main Street Theatre (Theatre) — 39.6 mi, 034° NE
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 44.8 mi, 202° S · 262k acres

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