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Olivia Texas Map

Explore Olivia, 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 Olivia, Texas

How to Use This Olivia, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	28.638607
Longitude	-96.455529
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	77979
Area Code	409
County Seat	Port Lavaca

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About Olivia, Texas

Olivia is a locality in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Olivia is located at 28.6386°N, 96.4555°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 77979.

Olivia rises from the flat, salt-scrubbed coastal plain where the horizon stretches thin and taut as a pulled wire. It lies 10.5 miles east of Port Lavaca, TX (from Port Lavaca, TX: bearing 81°T), and is situated 15.2 miles west-southwest of Palacios. The landscape around Olivia is a study in horizontal lines, defined by the brackish, tidal rhythms of the nearby coastline and the damp, heavy air that carries the scent of brine and drying marsh grass. At Hterious Park, the silence is punctuated only by the sudden, sharp rustle of waterfowl shifting in the reeds. Even in the height of the afternoon, the light here has a peculiar, pearlescent quality, silvering the edges of the flatlands and turning the distant, hazy form of Old Red Bluff into a mere phantom of land against the sky.

History in Olivia remains tied to the slow accumulation of sediment and the persistent, quiet labor of those who work the water and the nearby earth. While Keller Creek winds through the low-lying terrain three miles away, the economic life of the people often drifts toward the wider, deeper reaches of Keller Bay, where the tides dictate the day's cadence. Beyond the immediate reach of the shore, the freshwater stores of Coxs Creek Reservoir provide a steadying influence on the local landscape, tempering the salinity of the region. Life in Olivia moves with a deliberate, unadorned focus, shaped by the unpredictable cycles of the coast and the memory of storms that have long since faded into the tall grass of the surrounding prairie.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hterious Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 181° S
Olivia (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 008° N
Miramar Pointe (Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 202° S
Cox's Point (Monument) — 7.3 mi, 287° W
Magic Ridge (Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 214° SW
Judge Henry Joseph Huck (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 211° SW
Perry R. Bass Marine Fisheries Research Center (Recreation Easement) — 7.9 mi, 088° E
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle (Public Artwork) — 8.3 mi, 203° SW
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.4 mi, 205° SW · 298k acres
Port Lavaca Main Street Theatre (Theatre) — 10.4 mi, 261° W
Calhoun County Museum (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 260° W
Formosa-Tejano Wetlands Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 11.2 mi, 358° N
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 11.8 mi, 256° W
Powderhorn West Conservation Easement (Park) — 12.9 mi, 208° SW
Shark Stadium (Stadium) — 14.1 mi, 069° E
Lake Texana (Recreation Area) — 19.4 mi, 343° N
Guadalupe Delta Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 22.8 mi, 244° SW
Mad Island Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 23.1 mi, 089° E
Historica;Marker (Historic Ruins) — 24.0 mi, 056° NE
Buffalo Lake Overlook, Guadalupe Delta WMA (Nature Reserve) — 24.7 mi, 248° W
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 30.5 mi, 222° SW
Nave Museum (Museum) — 35.3 mi, 289° W
Matagorda County Birding Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 35.9 mi, 048° NE
Showplace 3 (Cinema) — 39.6 mi, 015° N
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.3 mi, 077° E · 193k acres
El Campo Museum of Art, History, and Natural Science (Museum) — 41.2 mi, 014° N
Site of Caney Post Office (Historic Ruins) — 42.8 mi, 058° NE
Rockport Birding & Kajak Adventures (Attraction) — 52.5 mi, 222° SW
Wharton County Historical Museum (Museum) — 53.4 mi, 024° NE
20th Century Technology Museum (Museum) — 53.4 mi, 024° NE

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