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Lasara Texas Map

Explore Lasara, 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 Lasara, Texas

How to Use This Lasara, Texas Map

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

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.

CityLasara
StateTexas (TX)
CountyWillacy County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude26.464789
Longitude-97.911112
Population909
Density242.9 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Codes78561, 78580
Area Code830
County SeatRaymondville
School DistrictLasara Independent School District

About Lasara, Texas

Lasara is a locality in Willacy County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 909. The population density is 242.9 people per km². Lasara is located at 26.4648°N, 97.9111°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 78561, 78580.

Lasara exists as a quiet confluence of flat, sun-bleached plains and the persistent, low-slung horizon of the brush country. It lies 8.0 miles west of Raymondville, TX (from Raymondville, TX: bearing 262°T), and is situated 7.4 miles north-northeast of Monte Alto. The earth here is a monochromatic expanse of silt and clay, stretching out under a sky that seems to possess more weight than the ground itself. A mile from the center of Lasara, the Main Branch Northeast Canal cuts a sharp, artificial line through the sediment, drawing what life it can from the arid heat. To the west, the distant silhouette of Divisadero haunts the haze, a faint jagged tooth against the blue, while the nearby reach of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge provides a sanctuary where the scrubland grows thick and tangled. In the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, catching the dust kicked up by the wind and turning the entire landscape into a suspended, shimmering mirage.

Agriculture dictates the pulse of Lasara, its rhythm defined by the seasonal turning of soil and the slow, mechanical labor of irrigation. The surrounding fields, thirsty and vast, are punctuated by the occasional glint of Delta Lake 2, a still, silver eye reflecting the clouds in an otherwise unblinking landscape. History here is written in the stubborn endurance of those who carved a living from the heat, settling into a pattern of life that favors the porch chair and the long, deliberate silence of the plains. There is a profound, stoic quality to the way the days pass, marked less by the clamor of progress and more by the steady, quiet expansion of irrigated crops and the resilience of the local character. In the cool of the evening, when the heat finally relents, the atmosphere settles into a heavy, agrarian stillness, as if the land itself were taking a deep, restorative breath before the cycle begins anew.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Lasara (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 105° E
  • Great Salt Lake (Monument) — 1.1 mi, 344° N
  • Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.7 mi, 359° N · 277k acres
  • Delta Lake Park (Local Park) — 4.2 mi, 219° SW
  • Hargill Pavilion (Local Park) — 6.6 mi, 258° W
  • First Baptist Church of Hargill (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 257° W
  • Monte Alto Veterans Park (Local Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 209° SW
  • Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.3 mi, 135° SE
  • Sebastian Municipal Utility District Regional Sports Facility (Local Recreation) — 10.6 mi, 138° SE
  • Hidalgo County Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.1 mi, 234° SW
  • Bowman Stadium (Stadium) — 22.4 mi, 138° SE
  • Plaza Sports Center (Stadium) — 22.5 mi, 225° SW
  • The History of Mexico & Mankind (Public Artwork) — 23.0 mi, 145° SE
  • Estero Llano Grande State ParK (State Park) — 23.3 mi, 186° S
  • Topgolf (Attraction) — 25.8 mi, 224° SW
  • R&N Thrift (Attraction) — 27.6 mi, 230° SW
  • Border Theater (Theatre) — 30.9 mi, 236° SW
  • Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.5 mi, 102° E · 287k acres
  • Bentsen - Rio Grande Valley State Park (State Park) — 33.9 mi, 235° SW
  • Spoil Islands (State Conservation Area) — 35.0 mi, 096° E
  • Hawk observation deck (Attraction) — 35.5 mi, 235° SW
  • Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 36.9 mi, 070° E · 262k acres
  • Stillman House Museum (Museum) — 46.7 mi, 146° SE
  • Brownsville Heritage Museum (Museum) — 46.7 mi, 146° SE
  • Brownsville Art League Fine Arts Museum (Museum) — 47.1 mi, 147° SE
  • Welcome to Texas Sign (Attraction) — 47.8 mi, 146° SE
  • Port Isabel Historical Museum (Museum) — 51.2 mi, 121° SE
  • Palmito Hill Battlefield (Viewpoint) — 51.4 mi, 133° SE
  • Gravity Park (Theme Park) — 52.4 mi, 118° SE
  • Boca Chica State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 55.7 mi, 126° SE

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About This Lasara Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lasara, Texas. Coordinates: 26.464789, -97.911112. 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 Lasara includes the ZIP code (78561, 78580), telephone area code (830), county seat of Willacy County (Raymondville), and school district assignment (Lasara 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.