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Loraine Texas Map

Explore Loraine, 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 Loraine, Texas

How to Use This Loraine, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.41123
Longitude	-100.712332
Population	504
Density	187.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	79532
Area Code	806
County Seat	Colorado City
School District	Loraine Independent School District

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About Loraine, Texas

Loraine is a locality in Mitchell County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 504. The population density is 187.3 people per km². Loraine is located at 32.4112°N, 100.7123°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Loraine is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79532.

Loraine emerges from the flat, parched expanse of the West Texas plains as a quiet collection of structures huddled against the wide, unrelenting sky. It lies 18.3 miles west-southwest of Sweetwater, TX (from Sweetwater, TX: bearing 257°T), and is situated 9.0 miles east of Colorado City. The horizon stretches thin and pale, broken only by the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator or the rhythmic pulse of a wind turbine, while the local earth, dry and dusty, holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has dipped toward the distant Edwards Plateau. Just a mile away, the North Fork Champion Creek carves a shallow, intermittent vein through the scrub, its bed often reflecting little more than the stark, cloudless blue of the sky. Within the center of the grid, City Park offers a meager shade of green, a patch of ground where the wind carries the scent of dry grass and the persistent, metallic tang of the distant oil fields.

Loraine carries the weight of a century’s labor in its quiet streets, where the architecture of a previous era persists in weathered brick and sagging porches. The economy has long leaned on the stubborn yield of the surrounding farmland and the subterranean pulse of the energy sector, forces that have dictated the slow, deliberate pace of daily life here for generations. While the waters of Champion Creek Reservoir lie nine miles out, holding a stillness that draws the eye toward the horizon, the town itself maintains a focus on the immediate tasks of the season. To the north, the subtle depression of Hanks Hollow hints at the ancient shifts in the terrain, a reminder that the land is never truly static. Life in Loraine flows with the gravity of the plains, defined by the endurance of those who stay and the steady, quiet work of keeping the fence lines straight and the spirit of the place intact against the encroaching silence of the prairie.

Nearby Outdoor Places

City Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 163° S
D.W. "80 John" Wallace (Monument) — 2.4 mi, 130° SE
Ruddick Park (Local Park) — 7.5 mi, 262° W
Colorado City Cemetery (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 260° W
Ware, R.C. (Dick) (Monument) — 7.6 mi, 261° W
Maddin Prairie (Park) — 7.9 mi, 212° SW
Heart of West Texas Museum (Museum) — 9.0 mi, 260° W
Lake Colorado City State Park (State Park) — 13.2 mi, 248° W
Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 076° E
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (W.T. Martin Ranch) (Park) — 20.7 mi, 025° NE
Lake Sweetwater Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 22.7 mi, 086° E
J.B Thomas Reservoir Marina (Local Recreation) — 27.3 mi, 294° NW
Fort Chadbourne (Historic Castle / Fort) — 37.5 mi, 134° SE
Welcome to Bronte (Public Artwork) — 43.7 mi, 146° SE
Lake Alan Henry Wildlife Habitat Area (Local Conservation Area) — 47.4 mi, 338° N
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 48.0 mi, 103° E
Ampitheater (Theatre) — 49.9 mi, 104° E
CCC stonework (Historic Ruins) — 50.2 mi, 104° E
Z I Hale Museum (Museum) — 53.9 mi, 125° SE
Oriana Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 54.9 mi, 017° N
Morgan Jones Planetarium (Museum) — 55.7 mi, 086° E
Myers Memorial Arena (Stadium) — 56.8 mi, 085° E
Paramount Theater (Theatre) — 57.1 mi, 087° E
Petrified Tree (Attraction) — 57.2 mi, 085° E
Women for Abilene Christian University Museum (Museum) — 58.5 mi, 086° E
Elmer Gray Stadium (Stadium) — 58.6 mi, 086° E
O.C. Fisher Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 58.8 mi, 172° S
Fort Phantom Hill (Attraction) — 62.3 mi, 075° E
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 77.1 mi, 352° N · 14k acres

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