Explore Mountain Home, 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 Mountain Home, 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 Mountain Home.
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 | Mountain Home |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Kerr County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.174647 |
| Longitude | -99.380327 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 5.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 78058 |
| Area Code | 210, 726 |
| County Seat | Kerrville |
Mountain Home occupies a limestone-streaked expanse where the clarity of the air allows the light to sharpen the edges of every cedar and twisted oak. It lies 16.8 miles west-northwest of Kerrville, TX (from Kerrville, TX: bearing 302°T), and is situated 31.1 miles west-southwest of Fredericksburg. Johnson Creek cuts a persistent, winding path through the local topography, carving its way through the limestone floor of Rough Hollow to provide a vein of cool, steady water. The landscape is defined by the slow, deliberate work of erosion, leaving behind a rugged terrain that feels ancient and unbothered by the haste of modern transit. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Edwards Plateau marks the horizon, the immediate ground remains a hard, sun-baked crust, where the shadows at high noon appear as dark and defined as obsidian against the pale, porous rock.
Historical currents in Mountain Home remain tied to the quiet persistence of ranching and the stewardship of the land, a tradition that finds a living extension in the nearby Kerr Wildlife Management Area. The economy here functions on a scale that respects the scarcity of water and the resilience required by the high-plains environment, favoring long-term endurance over rapid expansion. Life proceeds with a measured, internal logic, where the concerns of the day are often dictated by the shifting weather patterns and the needs of the livestock that graze the scrub brush. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of activity, but a deliberate choice, allowing the inhabitants to maintain a tether to the physical demands and the stark, quiet beauty of the terrain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mountain Home, Texas. Coordinates: 30.174647, -99.380327. 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 Mountain Home includes the ZIP code (78058), telephone area code (210, 726), county seat of Kerr County (Kerrville), and school district assignment.
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. |