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Melvin Texas Map

Explore Melvin, 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 Melvin, Texas

How to Use This Melvin, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	31.195168
Longitude	-99.579785
Population	123
Density	102.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	76858
Area Code	325
County Seat	Brady
School District	Brady Independent School District

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About Melvin, Texas

Melvin is a locality in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 123. The population density is 102.4 people per km². Melvin is located at 31.1952°N, 99.5798°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Melvin is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 76858.

Melvin emerges from the sun-bleached expanse of the Texas plains, defined by the steady, shallow pulse of Brady Creek as it carves a path through the limestone-heavy earth. It lies 49.7 miles southwest of Brownwood, TX (from Brownwood, TX: bearing 224°T), and is situated 15.1 miles west-northwest of Brady. This landscape is a vast, dry theater of open horizons where the sky claims more space than the soil, and the air carries the dry, earthen scent of cured grasses and sun-warmed stone. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Edwards Plateau lingers like a memory on the horizon, while closer to home, the subtle depressions of Clements Draw offer the only relief from the flat, arid stretches of the prairie. When the light of late afternoon strikes the ground, the terrain softens into shades of amber and pale ochre, turning the rugged scrubland into a place of quiet, singular intensity.

Melvin bears the marks of a region built upon the resilience of ranching and the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons. The local economy remains anchored to the land, where the rhythms of agriculture and livestock define the passage of days far more than the frantic pace of the outside world. While the Soil Conservation Service Site 10 Reservoir waits seven miles away as a testament to the essential management of water in this parched latitude, the people here maintain a quiet, enduring connection to their heritage. Visitors seeking a moment of respite often look toward the green, cultivated relief of Brady City Park for recreation, yet the true character of Melvin is found in the stillness of its intersections and the way the wind moves through the mesquite. It is a place where history is not merely recounted but lived in the maintenance of fences and the steady, solitary work that keeps the plains alive.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Swedish Free Mission Church (Monument) — 0.3 mi, 208° SW
Brady City Park (Local Park) — 12.2 mi, 109° E
Brady Lake Monument (Monument) — 12.4 mi, 110° E
Western Trail (Monument) — 12.6 mi, 070° E
Doole High School (Historic Ruins) — 14.0 mi, 355° N
Richards Park (Local Park) — 14.1 mi, 108° E
Kenedy Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 22.8 mi, 350° N
Santa Anna (Conservation Area) — 24.5 mi, 044° NE
Concho Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 25.1 mi, 344° N
Menard County Museum (Museum) — 25.7 mi, 215° SW
The Earnest and Dorothy Barrow Foundation Museum (Museum) — 28.7 mi, 299° NW
Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 30.5 mi, 139° SE
Mason County Museum (Museum) — 37.3 mi, 146° SE
Pontotoc Winery (Attraction) — 40.6 mi, 119° SE
Hords Creek Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 43.1 mi, 000° N
Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 45.8 mi, 161° S
Martin & Frances Lehnis Railroad Musuem (Museum) — 50.5 mi, 044° NE
Lyric Theatre (Theatre) — 50.6 mi, 044° NE
Brown County Museum of History (Museum) — 50.7 mi, 044° NE
Regal Heartland (Cinema) — 52.3 mi, 044° NE
South Llano River State Park (State Park) — 52.8 mi, 194° S
International Water Lily Garden (Attraction) — 54.6 mi, 290° W
O.C. Fisher Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 55.8 mi, 291° W
Twin Buttes Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 55.9 mi, 281° W
San Angelo State Park (State Park) — 56.7 mi, 290° W
McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 63.1 mi, 041° NE
Welcome to Bronte (Public Artwork) — 63.7 mi, 319° NW
Canyons Off Road Park (Attraction) — 64.3 mi, 143° SE
Muse Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 65.0 mi, 042° NE
Fort Chadbourne (Historic Castle / Fort) — 70.1 mi, 326° NW

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