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Los Barreras Texas Map

Explore Los Barreras, 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 Los Barreras, Texas

How to Use This Los Barreras, Texas Map

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

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	Los Barreras
State	Texas (TX)
County	Starr County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	26.386731
Longitude	-98.920584
Population	278
Density	468.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	78582
Area Code	830
County Seat	Rio Grande City
School District	Roma Independent School District

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About Los Barreras, Texas

Los Barreras is a locality in Starr County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 278. The population density is 468.7 people per km². Los Barreras is located at 26.3867°N, 98.9206°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78582.

Los Barreras sits upon a sun-baked expanse where the earth turns to a fine, floury dust under the relentless heat of the borderlands. It lies 6.0 miles east-southeast of Roma, TX (from Roma, TX: bearing 102°T), and is situated 6.2 miles west of Rio Grande City. The Rio Grande cuts a slow, muddy path through the low-lying plains, its winding presence the only reliable lifeline in a landscape dominated by scrub brush and the distant, hazy silhouette of Gongora Hill. Beyond the riverbed, the land stretches out into a vast, arid basin, occasionally broken by the shallow, dry cuts of Arroyo los Morenos. At dusk, the light loses its harshness, casting long, bruised shadows across the hard-packed soil and turning the horizon into a thin, shimmering line of gold.

Los Barreras draws its character from the quiet, persistent rhythm of life along the edge of the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area, where the brush provides cover for a dense variety of native birds. The economy here is tethered to the land, defined by the dry resilience of ranching and the seasonal pulse of agriculture that has persisted for generations. While the massive expanse of Falcon Reservoir holds the promise of water just eighteen miles away, the daily existence in Los Barreras remains focused on the immediate, tangible reality of the river and the brush. Residents move with a deliberate, measured pace, shaped by a history of movement and adaptation that lingers in the bilingual cadences of the street. It is a place where the stillness of the afternoon is heavy with the weight of the sun, and the evening breeze carries the scent of dry earth and sage.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 234° SW
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.8 mi, 275° W · 277k acres
Garceno Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 321° NW
Site of the Mission San Augustin de Laredo a Visita (Monument) — 4.1 mi, 105° E
Nuevo Santander Land Grants (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 283° W
Roma Park (Local Park) — 5.1 mi, 278° W
Old Rio Grande City Cemetery (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 094° E
Las Estrellas Preserve (Park) — 6.3 mi, 019° N
Roma Historical Museum (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 343° N
Falcon State Park (State Park) — 18.0 mi, 315° NW
Javelina Ranch (Park) — 29.8 mi, 096° E
Bentsen - Rio Grande Valley State Park (State Park) — 35.4 mi, 113° SE
Hawk observation deck (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 114° SE
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 38.4 mi, 328° NW
Shary Municipal Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 38.6 mi, 106° E
Border Theater (Theatre) — 38.7 mi, 108° E
Sharyland Rattlers Stadium (Stadium) — 41.4 mi, 107° E
R&N Thrift (Attraction) — 43.3 mi, 107° E
Topgolf (Attraction) — 46.5 mi, 106° E
Hidalgo County Historical Museum (Museum) — 47.3 mi, 097° E
Plaza Sports Center (Stadium) — 47.9 mi, 103° E
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 51.5 mi, 114° SE · 4,218 acres
La Paz Museum (Museum) — 59.8 mi, 335° NW
The History of Mexico & Mankind (Public Artwork) — 76.9 mi, 100° E

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