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Lyons Texas Map

Explore Lyons, 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 Lyons, Texas

How to Use This Lyons, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	30.40879
Longitude	-96.539232
Population	236
Density	30.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	77863
Area Code	409
County Seat	Caldwell
School District	Somerville Independent School District

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About Lyons, Texas

Lyons is a locality in Burleson County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 236. The population density is 30.8 people per km². Lyons is located at 30.4088°N, 96.5392°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 77863.

Lyons anchors itself amidst a landscape of weathered earth and persistent, low-slung prairie grasses that ripple under the weight of an expansive, unshielded sky. It lies 18.1 miles north-northwest of Brenham, TX (from Brenham, TX: bearing 327°T), and is situated 12.7 miles southeast of Caldwell. Bell Creek carves a singular, winding path through the soil here, its presence marked by the thick, knotted roots of hardwoods that drink deeply from the bank’s edge. Beyond the immediate terrain, the silhouette of Green Mountain rises in the distance as a muted smudge against the horizon, anchoring the visual field in a way that suggests age rather than altitude. Air moves with a deliberate, slow-turning quality, carrying the scent of parched dust and the faint, sweet decay of brush, while the light at dusk flattens the topography into long, violet shadows that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has retreated.

Somerville Lake waits only two miles away, offering a vast, placid expanse that serves as the region’s primary mirror for the shifting clouds and the changing seasons. Residents of Lyons often look toward the Somerville Recreation Area for the quiet communion of open space, or travel the distance to the Yegua Creek Park Nature Trail to trace the patterns of the local scrubland. The economy remains tethered to the slow pulse of the land, an inheritance of agricultural cycles and the steady, unspectacular work of maintenance and trade that has defined the region for generations. Life in Lyons moves with a gravity of its own, unhurried and observant, where the arrival of a seasonal shift or the drying of a creek bed registers as a local event of profound consequence, grounding the inhabitants in a reality that prioritizes the endurance of the soil over the frantic pace of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lyons Methodist Church (Monument) — 2.2 mi, 226° SW
Lone Oak Baptist Church (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 017° N
Somerville Historical Museum (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 050° NE
Somerville Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 3.1 mi, 191° S
Oaklawn Cemetery (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 185° S
Somerville Lake (Recreation Area) — 3.9 mi, 193° S
Snook City Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 037° NE
Lake Somerville State Park - Birch Creek (State Park) — 7.5 mi, 215° SW
Texas A&M University Aquaculture Research Teaching Facility (Recreation Easement) — 9.0 mi, 039° NE
Lake Somerville Trailway State Park (State Park) — 9.0 mi, 228° SW
Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.6 mi, 223° SW
Burleson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 313° NW
Burleson County Czech Heritage Museum (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 313° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 12.6 mi, 311° NW
Hohlt Park (Local Recreation) — 17.0 mi, 153° SE
George Bush Statue (Public Artwork) — 17.1 mi, 040° NE
MSC Forsyth Galleries (Gallery) — 18.3 mi, 040° NE
J Wayne Stark University Center Galleries (Gallery) — 18.4 mi, 040° NE
Giddings-Wilkin House Museum (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 152° SE
Rudder Theater (Theatre) — 18.5 mi, 040° NE
Brenham Fine Arts League & Gallery (Gallery) — 18.7 mi, 153° SE
Star Cinema Grill (Cinema) — 19.1 mi, 038° NE
Star of the Republic Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 106° E
The Theatre Company of Bryan & College Station (Theatre) — 19.8 mi, 035° NE
Earth Art (Attraction) — 20.7 mi, 028° NE
The La Bahia Pecan (Attraction) — 23.6 mi, 103° E
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 44.3 mi, 082° E · 163k acres
Little Lake Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 47.1 mi, 081° E · 3,956 acres
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 48.6 mi, 163° S · 21k acres
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 74.9 mi, 154° SE · 193k acres

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