Explore McLean, 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 McLean, 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 McLean.
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 | McLean |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Gray County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 35.23255 |
| Longitude | -100.599856 |
| Population | 665 |
| Density | 221.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 79057 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| County Seat | Pampa |
| School District | McLean Independent School District |
McLean emerges from the vast, open expanse of the Texas Panhandle as a quiet sentinel of the high plains, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that feels immense and unburdened. It lies 29.2 miles southeast of Pampa, TX (from Pampa, TX: bearing 136°T), and is situated 54.0 miles east-southeast of Borger. The land here is defined by the subtle, persistent erosion of the plains, carving out the shallow depression of Saye Draw six miles away and directing the modest flow of South Long Dry Creek, which winds its way across the landscape just a mile from the center. To the west, the distant outline of Mount Ararat offers a faint, jagged interruption to the otherwise seamless sweep of the prairie, while the more verdant reaches of McClellan Creek National Grassland provide a protected sanctuary for the native grasses that ripple in the constant, rhythmic wind. At dusk, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, casting long shadows across the dry soil and highlighting the stark, honest beauty of a terrain that relies on the resilience of its earth rather than the artifice of decoration.
History remains a living presence in McLean, etched into the faded brick of storefronts that once hummed with the energy of transcontinental travelers moving along the Mother Road. The local economy, once fueled by the steady pulse of automotive commerce and the early oil boom, now finds its gravity in the quiet endurance of agriculture and the legacy of its past, when the town served as a vital waypoint for those traversing the great interior. Visitors still pause to admire the restored architecture of the vintage service stations, structures that stand as monuments to a time when travel was measured in oil changes and roadside coffee. While the nearby R D Back Lake offers a rare, calm gathering of water for the local wildlife, the daily life of McLean moves at the deliberate pace of the seasons, shaped by the sturdy independence of those who choose to live where the wind carries the scent of dust and distant fields, far from the influence of any coastline.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of McLean, Texas. Coordinates: 35.23255, -100.599856. 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 McLean includes the ZIP code (79057), telephone area code (806), county seat of Gray County (Pampa), and school district assignment (McLean 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. |