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Nada Texas Map

Explore Nada, 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 Nada, Texas

How to Use This Nada, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	29.415511
Longitude	-96.378572
Population	231
Density	13.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	77460, 77442
Area Code	281
County Seat	Columbus
School District	Rice Consolidated Independent School District

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About Nada, Texas

Nada is a locality in Colorado County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 231. The population density is 13.4 people per km². Nada is located at 29.4155°N, 96.3786°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 77460, 77442.

Nada reveals itself through a vast, flat expanse of working prairie where the horizon remains unbroken by anything but the insistent, vertical reach of fence lines and distant oaks. It lies 16.0 miles north-northwest of El Campo, TX (from El Campo, TX: bearing 334°T), and is situated 18.3 miles west-northwest of Wharton. West Mustang Creek carves a quiet, sluggish path through the earth just a mile from the center, its banks thick with brush that turns a deep, bruised purple in the low light of evening. The air here holds a heavy stillness, a quality of light that seems to press against the land, making the shadows of the scattered trees appear longer and more deliberate than they are elsewhere. To the west, the subtle rise of Middle Brook Hill barely disturbs the skyline, yet it serves as a persistent reminder that the ground is never truly motionless, even when the wind dies down to a whisper across the dry grasses.

Nada maintains a quiet pulse defined by the rhythms of agriculture and the enduring legacy of the families who first broke this stubborn soil. While the D.R. Wintermann Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the local fauna ten miles away, the economy of the immediate vicinity remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest. There is a spare, functional grace to the buildings that house the machinery of daily life, structures built to withstand the heat and the sudden, violent storms that occasionally sweep across the plains. One might travel twenty-five miles toward Lake Texana and find a different kind of stillness, but the character of the people here is forged in the endurance of the inland sun, a slow and steady patience that prefers the honest labor of the fields over the fleeting noise of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Nada Post Office (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 214° SW
First Producing Gas Well in Colorado County (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 321° NW
Garwood (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 336° NW
D.R. Wintermann Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 058° NE
Egypt Plantation Museum (Museum) — 9.7 mi, 097° E
Eagle Lake Muncipal Park (Local Park) — 12.0 mi, 012° N
Prairie Edge Museum (Museum) — 12.2 mi, 013° N
Open Space (Local Park) — 12.5 mi, 011° N
Us-Tx-132-1 (Conservation Area) — 14.4 mi, 060° NE
El Campo Museum of Art, History, and Natural Science (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 158° S
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.0 mi, 023° NE · 21k acres
Showplace 3 (Cinema) — 16.2 mi, 161° S
20th Century Technology Museum (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 106° E
Wharton County Historical Museum (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 106° E
Stafford Bank and Opera House (Theatre) — 22.3 mi, 334° NW
Lake Texana (Recreation Area) — 22.7 mi, 209° SW
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.1 mi, 087° E · 193k acres
Palmetto Bend (Local Conservation Area) — 25.3 mi, 190° S
Columbus Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 28.4 mi, 329° NW
St Mary's Grotto (Attraction) — 29.2 mi, 037° NE
San Felipe de Austin (Attraction) — 29.9 mi, 033° NE
Stephen F Austin State Park (State Park) — 31.6 mi, 030° NE
1824 Well (Attraction) — 31.9 mi, 032° NE
Stephen F. Austin (Attraction) — 31.9 mi, 032° NE
Matagorda County Birding Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 37.1 mi, 143° SE
Xscape Theaters (Cinema) — 37.9 mi, 059° NE
Jordan High School Perfprming Arts Center (Theatre) — 38.0 mi, 056° NE
Brazos Bend State Park (State Park) — 44.4 mi, 092° E
Mad Island Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 52.9 mi, 160° S
Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 62.2 mi, 120° SE

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