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Pennington Texas Map

Explore Pennington, 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 Pennington, Texas

How to Use This Pennington, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	31.191294
Longitude	-95.235494
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	75856
Area Code	903
County Seat	Groveton

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About Pennington, Texas

Pennington is a locality in Trinity County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Pennington is located at 31.1913°N, 95.2355°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 75856.

Pennington occupies a quiet stretch of land where the humid, pine-shadowed air of the East Texas timberlands begins to thin into the broader, open reach of the inland plains. It lies 31.6 miles west-southwest of Lufkin, TX (from Lufkin, TX: bearing 251°T), and is situated 15.7 miles southeast of Crockett. The landscape here is defined by the steady, modest flow of Brownlee Creek, which carves a shallow, verdant path through the soil just a mile from the center of the settlement. To the east, the sprawling canopy of Davy Crockett National Forest rises in a dense, dark wall of green that dictates the local climate, keeping the summer afternoons heavy with the scent of damp earth and resinous needles. The horizon is punctuated by the distant, muted silhouettes of Sugar Mounds, which break the flat monotony of the horizon line like soft, earthen swells caught in the amber glow of a fading afternoon.

Pennington emerged from the necessity of the timber industry, a settlement built on the hard, industrious labor of those who turned the surrounding woods into the raw materials of a growing nation. While the modern economy has shifted away from the frantic pace of the early mill days, the local character remains tethered to the land, shaped by the cycles of the forest and the slow, deliberate work of the nearby agricultural plots. Residents often find themselves drawn toward the larger expanse of Lake Livingston for recreation, yet the rhythm of life in Pennington remains stubbornly private, marked by the long, quiet shadows cast by the pines and the persistent, low-frequency hum of insects in the tall grass. It is a place that asks for little, offering instead a rare, unvarnished stillness that seems to thicken as the sun dips below the western fields, leaving the timber-darkened periphery to reclaim the silence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Steele's Academy (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 182° S
Albert Holley House (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 287° W
Davy Crockett National Forest (National Forest) — 1.7 mi, 113° SE · 161k acres
Hopewell Community and Gudeblye School (Monument) — 8.8 mi, 302° NW
Trinity County Park (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 152° SE
Alabama Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.4 mi, 090° E
Houston County Museum and Visitors Center (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 302° NW
Boggy Slough (Conservation Area) — 17.0 mi, 050° NE
Big Slough Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 19.4 mi, 020° N · 3,521 acres
Mission Tejas State Park (State Park) — 23.9 mi, 359° N
Naranjo Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 29.6 mi, 080° E
Angelina College Roadrunner (Public Artwork) — 30.6 mi, 077° E
Angelina National Forest (National Forest) — 30.6 mi, 068° E · 154k acres
Carmike Cinema Lufkin Mall 9 (Cinema) — 31.4 mi, 074° E
St Andrews Church (Historic Ruins) — 35.0 mi, 315° NW
Texas Prison Rodeo Stadium (Historic Ruins) — 37.3 mi, 210° SW
Gibbs-Powell House Museum (Museum) — 37.4 mi, 210° SW
H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum of Texas (Museum) — 37.6 mi, 213° SW
Livingston Museum (Museum) — 37.6 mi, 152° SE
Neches River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.5 mi, 347° N · 16k acres
Huntsville State Park (State Park) — 41.6 mi, 204° SW
Cole Art Center at The Old Opera House (Gallery) — 44.5 mi, 050° NE
Big Thicket National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 46.0 mi, 137° SE · 109k acres
Fairy Garden Trail (Attraction) — 47.7 mi, 330° NW
Upland Island Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 49.9 mi, 095° E · 13k acres
Cherokee Trace Drive-Thru Safari (Attraction) — 51.4 mi, 013° N
Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 57.6 mi, 159° S · 58k acres
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 63.3 mi, 310° NW
Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 67.8 mi, 128° SE
Performance Stage (Attraction) — 68.6 mi, 178° S

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