Explore Palm Valley, 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 Palm Valley, 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 Palm Valley.
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 | Palm Valley |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Cameron County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.201742 |
| Longitude | -97.75416 |
| Population | 1,413 |
| Density | 912.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 78552 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Brownsville |
| School District | Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District |
Palm Valley manifests as a quiet expanse of flat, sun-drenched plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut under a vast, unyielding sky. It lies 3.7 miles west-northwest of Harlingen, TX (from Harlingen, TX: bearing 282°T), and is situated 9.0 miles west-northwest of San Benito. The landscape is defined by the steady, low-lying reach of the brush and the subtle dust that rises in the heat of midday, coating the leaves of mesquite and scrub. While Harmony Hill rises faintly in the distant haze, the immediate terrain remains level, marked by the sparse shadows cast by low-hanging suns that turn the earth a pale, dusty gold. Only a mile away, the quiet grounds of Unknown Park offer a sheltered patch of native vegetation, providing a brief refuge of shade before the land opens again into the wide, agricultural stretches that define the perimeter of Palm Valley.
Agriculture remains the silent pulse of the local economy, with irrigation channels like the Wilson Canal drawing life through the soil to feed the crops that blanket the fields. The rhythm of daily life here is dictated by the seasons of planting and harvest, a slow cycle that has persisted far from the reach of the distant North Floodway. Those seeking a longer view might find their way toward the Arroyo Hike and Bike Trail, which cuts a path through the fields, or look toward the quiet surface of the La Feria Reservoir, where the water holds the reflection of the sky with a mirror-like stillness. It is a place of deliberate persistence, where the heat of the afternoon slows the pace of movement until the evening air brings a brief, cool reprieve to the workers returning home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Palm Valley, Texas. Coordinates: 26.201742, -97.75416. 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 Palm Valley includes the ZIP code (78552), telephone area code (830), county seat of Cameron County (Brownsville), and school district assignment (Harlingen Consolidated 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. |