Explore Milano, 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 Milano, 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 Milano.
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 | Milano |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Milam County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.705313 |
| Longitude | -96.852687 |
| Population | 390 |
| Density | 82.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 76556 |
| Area Code | 254 |
| County Seat | Cameron |
| School District | Milano Independent School District |
Milano stretches across a landscape of sun-bleached grasses and stubborn scrub oak that defines the quiet transition between the dense timberlands to the east and the limestone-studded plains of the interior. It lies 29.4 miles west of Bryan, TX (from Bryan, TX: bearing 275°T), and is situated 9.0 miles east-northeast of Rockdale. The earth here is a mosaic of hard-packed clay and sandy loam, shaped by the slow, persistent work of erosion that gives rise to the subtle elevation of Hart Mountain rising a few miles to the north. A mile from the center of Milano, the thin, winding ribbon of Cannonsnap Creek carves a shallow path through the brush, its banks often dry or reduced to a stagnant, shimmering vein during the heat of the late summer months. When the light of dusk descends, it casts a long, bruised purple shadow across the terrain, turning the sparse vegetation into silhouettes that seem to hold the stillness of the surrounding inland expanse.
Railroad tracks once dictated the pulse of Milano, anchoring its identity as a junction where the movement of freight and the transit of travelers defined the daily rhythm of labor. The economy remains tethered to the vast, open acreage that surrounds the settlement, where cattle grazing and the management of regional timber resources maintain a steady, if modest, pace of life. Residents often look toward the wider horizon for recreation, occasionally venturing toward the quiet waters of Alcoa Lake or spending a weekend afternoon in the shade of the trees at Rockdale Bridge Park. In the deeper folds of the landscape, such as the distant basin of Dave Hollow, the land retains a sense of seclusion, far removed from the bustle of the larger hubs that lie beyond the reach of the local horizon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Milano, Texas. Coordinates: 30.705313, -96.852687. 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 Milano includes the ZIP code (76556), telephone area code (254), county seat of Milam County (Cameron), and school district assignment (Milano 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. |