Lamar Texas Map

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.

About This Lamar Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lamar, Texas. Coordinates: 28.14034, -96.987818. 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 Lamar includes the ZIP code (75935, 78382), telephone area code (903, 830), county seat of Shelby County (Center), and school district assignment (Rockport-Fulton 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.