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Petronila Texas Map

Explore Petronila, 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 Petronila, Texas

How to Use This Petronila, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	27.671975
Longitude	-97.635828
Population	89
Density	18.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	78380
Area Code	830
County Seat	Corpus Christi
School District	Bishop Consolidated Independent School District

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About Petronila, Texas

Petronila is a locality in Nueces County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 89. The population density is 18.8 people per km². Petronila is located at 27.6720°N, 97.6358°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Petronila is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 78380.

Petronila sits upon a vast, sun-drenched expanse of flat South Texas prairie where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulling the sky down to meet the earth in a seamless, dusty line. It lies 8.4 miles south-southeast of Robstown, TX (from Robstown, TX: bearing 166°T), and is situated 17.1 miles west-southwest of Corpus Christi. The land is defined by a rigorous, horizontal patience, broken only by the occasional scrub brush or the subtle, winding depression where Petronila Creek carves its shallow path through the clay. During the long, golden hours of late afternoon, the light here loses its harsh, midday edge, casting a warm, amber glow that flattens the shadows and turns the grasses into a field of brittle, swaying copper. It is a landscape that demands little but observation, where the air feels heavy with the scent of dry soil and the distant, metallic promise of an approaching storm.

Petronila carries the weight of a quiet, agrarian history, its rhythm dictated by the cycles of planting and the steady, mechanical hum of regional agriculture that sustains the local economy. While the bustle of larger, more frantic centers remains miles away, life here maintains a deliberate, unadorned pace, occasionally punctuated by the memory of nearby spaces like Robstown Memorial Park or the far-off, shimmering surface of Laguna Larga. The culture of Petronila remains tethered to the land and the industry of the plains, reflecting a resilient, pragmatic spirit that survives in the stillness. It is a place that does not seek to be noticed, preferring instead to exist in the quiet intervals between the seasons, where the primary occupation is simply to endure the sun and watch the slow, circular transit of the clouds.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Martha (Reagan) Rabb (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 324° NW
Site of Santa Petronila Ranch (Monument) — 6.8 mi, 273° W
Old Saint Anthony's Catholic Church (Monument) — 8.1 mi, 018° N
Robstown County Park (Local Park) — 9.8 mi, 344° N
Violet Museum (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 316° NW
West Guth Park (Local Recreation) — 12.1 mi, 023° NE
St. John Paul II Statue (Public Artwork) — 12.8 mi, 078° E
Bulldog Stadium (Stadium) — 13.5 mi, 314° NW
Bill Witt City Park (Local Recreation) — 15.6 mi, 094° E
Bear Creek (Local Park) — 15.7 mi, 095° E
Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 17.1 mi, 059° NE
K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 17.2 mi, 060° NE
Rio 7 Cinemas (Cinema) — 17.3 mi, 227° SW
Tejano Civil Rights Museum (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 058° NE
Museum Of Hispanic Culture (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 058° NE
Robert E. Salle Observation Pavilion (Viewpoint) — 17.7 mi, 056° NE
1904 Train Depot Museum (Museum) — 17.8 mi, 233° SW
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 17.9 mi, 056° NE
John E Conner Museum (Museum) — 18.2 mi, 235° SW
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 23.2 mi, 121° SE · 262k acres
Mustang Island State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 26.7 mi, 094° E
Lake Corpus Christi State Park (State Park) — 30.1 mi, 332° NW
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 33.2 mi, 021° N
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 35.0 mi, 042° NE
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 37.3 mi, 072° E
Rockport Birding & Kajak Adventures (Attraction) — 46.0 mi, 052° NE
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 51.6 mi, 052° NE · 298k acres
Choke Canyon State Park (State Park) — 66.3 mi, 326° NW
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 74.2 mi, 182° S · 277k acres

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