Explore Little River Academy, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Little River Academy, 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 Little River Academy.
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 | Little River Academy |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Bell County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.986294 |
| Longitude | -97.358614 |
| Population | 1,961 |
| Density | 120.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 76554 |
| Area Code | 254 |
| County Seat | Belton |
Little River Academy occupies a quiet expanse of Central Texas where the horizon stretches wide across flat, sun-bleached plains. It lies 7.8 miles south of Temple, TX (from Temple, TX: bearing 187°T), and is situated 7.9 miles southeast of Belton. The earth here is a mosaic of heavy black clay and limestone, holding the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. A mile away, the slow, muddy pulse of Boggy Creek cuts through the brush, its banks lined with twisted hardwoods that offer the only reprieve from the relentless glare of the sky. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Tweedle Mountain rises like a muted charcoal sketch against the pale blue, while the quiet waters of Soil Conservation Service Site 6 Reservoir wait ten miles distant, catching the amber light of dusk in a stillness that feels heavy with the weight of the land.
Little River Academy bears the quiet imprint of an agricultural heritage, defined by the steady labor of those who work the surrounding fields and maintain the rhythm of the seasons. The economy remains anchored to the soil, with the daily life of the residents unfolding against a backdrop of rural commerce and the steady, mechanical hum of tractors moving across the horizon. Beyond the immediate reach of the local grid, the proximity of Tanglewood Park provides a modest sanctuary of open space, a place where the wind moves through the tall grasses with a sharp, dry whistle. Life in Little River Academy is measured not by the passage of rapid events, but by the subtle shifts in the color of the brush and the long, thin shadows that stretch across the road as the evening cools.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Little River Academy, Texas. Coordinates: 30.986294, -97.358614. 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 Little River Academy includes the ZIP code (76554), telephone area code (254), county seat of Bell County (Belton), and school district assignment.
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. |