Explore Los Indios, 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 Los Indios, 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 Indios.
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 Indios |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Cameron County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.049927 |
| Longitude | -97.734811 |
| Population | 1,008 |
| Density | 207.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 78567, 78586 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Brownsville |
| School District | San Benito Consolidated Independent School District |
Los Indios exists as a quiet confluence of silt and sun, where the horizon stretches across a vast, flat expanse of brush and cultivated fields. It lies 9.1 miles southwest of San Benito, TX (from San Benito, TX: bearing 231°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south-southeast of La Feria. The light here is heavy and golden, pressing against the earth until the shadows of mesquite trees sharpen into ink-black silhouettes against the dust. A mile to the west, the Rio Grande carves a deliberate, slow-moving path through the terrain, its banks lined with dense thickets that soften the edge between water and soil. Closer still, the stillness of Cameron Company WCID 2 Reservoir 1 holds the pale reflection of the sky, offering a muted contrast to the relentless dry heat that defines the basin. At Los Indios Community Park, the air carries the scent of baked clay and parched grass, a reminder that the land is shaped more by the long, thirsty summers than by any dramatic change in elevation.
Los Indios sustains itself through the quiet industry of the borderlands, where the flow of commerce and the rhythms of agriculture dictate the pace of the day. The legacy of the region is written in the bilingual pulse of the streets and the enduring resilience of those who tend the surrounding acreage, turning the stubborn scrub into rows of steady harvest. While the Arroyo Hike and Bike Trail offers a passage through the wider reaches of the landscape nine miles away, the core of life remains tied to the local crossings and the steady, unyielding transit of goods. There is a particular dignity in the way Los Indios persists, a place where the history of migration and settlement is not a monument to be viewed, but a daily practice of working the soil and watching the sun dip low over the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Los Indios, Texas. Coordinates: 26.049927, -97.734811. 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 Los Indios includes the ZIP code (78567, 78586), telephone area code (830), county seat of Cameron County (Brownsville), and school district assignment (San Benito Consolidated 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 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. |