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Olden Texas Map

Explore Olden, 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 Olden, Texas

How to Use This Olden, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.41902
Longitude	-98.750894
Population	280
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	76448, 76466
Area Code	254
County Seat	Eastland

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About Olden, Texas

Olden is a locality in Eastland County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Olden is located at 32.4190°N, 98.7509°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 76448, 76466.

Olden occupies a stretch of sun-bleached earth where the Lick Branch carves a shallow, meandering vein through the parched prairie soil. It lies 34.8 miles west-northwest of Stephenville, TX (from Stephenville, TX: bearing 293°T), and is situated 4.1 miles east-northeast of Eastland. The landscape pulls toward a horizon defined by the distant, jagged silhouette of Skunk Ridge, an outline that deepens into a bruised purple as the sun slips behind the plains. Near the quiet water of Borrow Pit Reservoir, the air carries the dry, metallic scent of iron-rich dust and dormant scrub, a stillness that settles over the cracked ground long before the stars emerge. The terrain shifts toward the low, eroded depressions of Hamilton Hollow, where the shadows of stunted mesquite trees stretch thin and sharp across the hardpan, marking the passage of hours in a land that demands a patient, observant eye.

Olden grew from the grit of the early oil boom, a legacy still visible in the rusted skeletal remains of derricks that once promised prosperity from the depths below. Today, the economy leans on the steady, quiet labor of ranching and the maintenance of the infrastructure that crosses these plains, a rhythm dictated more by the cycles of drought and rain than by the frantic pace of the outside world. Those seeking a reprieve from the heat often find their way to Chock-a-Block Park, where the local flora survives in defiance of the relentless, beating sun. Life in Olden persists with a stoic, unadorned grace, reflected in the way the light catches the weathered siding of grain silos and the muted, honest work of people who have learned to measure their days by the shifting color of the grass and the turning of the wind.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Campbell's Tomato Soup (Public Artwork) — 2.7 mi, 242° SW
Hargus Farm (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 241° SW
Merriman Baptist Church (Monument) — 3.1 mi, 084° E
Merriman Cemetery (Monument) — 3.1 mi, 084° E
Chock-a-Block Park (Local Park) — 3.9 mi, 157° SE
Ol' Rip (Attraction) — 4.1 mi, 253° W
Austin McCloud Appellate Court Museum (Museum) — 4.2 mi, 253° W
Ringling Lake Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 271° W
Municipal Baseball And Softball Complex And Fields (Local Recreation) — 5.0 mi, 252° W
Thurber Smokestack (Attraction) — 20.5 mi, 072° E
Museum of Aircraft Perservation (Museum) — 22.6 mi, 338° N
Swenson Memorial Museum (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 339° N
Breckenridge Aviation Museum (Museum) — 25.0 mi, 339° N
Proctor Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 27.8 mi, 154° SE
Roger R Fawcett Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 28.5 mi, 063° NE
Proctor Lake (Recreation Area) — 28.7 mi, 153° SE
Possum Kingdom State Park (State Park) — 31.1 mi, 019° N
Art Briles Stadium (Stadium) — 33.1 mi, 116° SE
Stephenville Soccer Complex (Local Recreation) — 33.3 mi, 112° E
Campfire Ring (Theatre) — 33.8 mi, 027° NE
OA Field (Theatre) — 33.8 mi, 027° NE
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 33.9 mi, 114° SE
John Tarleton Ranch House (Attraction) — 34.9 mi, 113° SE
Center Grove Schoolhouse (Attraction) — 34.9 mi, 113° SE
Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 34.9 mi, 113° SE
Comanche County Museum (Museum) — 35.7 mi, 171° S
McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 35.9 mi, 190° S
Lake Brownwood State Park (State Park) — 41.6 mi, 203° SW
Lake Mineral Wells State Trailway (State Recreation Area) — 45.7 mi, 054° NE

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