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Petty Texas Map

Explore Petty, 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 Petty, Texas

How to Use This Petty, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	33.605405
Longitude	-95.803419
Population	140
Density	93.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	79373, 75470
Area Code	806, 972, 469
County Seat	Tahoka
School District	Chisum Independent School District

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About Petty, Texas

Petty is a locality in Lynn County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 140. The population density is 93.8 people per km². Petty is located at 33.6054°N, 95.8034°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 79373, 75470.

Petty emerges from the vast, open plains as a quiet expanse where the horizon claims more authority than the earth itself. It lies 21.6 miles south-southwest of Lubbock, TX (from Lubbock, TX: bearing 200°T), and is situated 18.4 miles east-northeast of Brownfield. The landscape around Petty is defined by the subtle, rhythmic shifts of the land, stretching toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Indian Ridge. To the west, the terrain opens into the expansive, low-lying basin of Antelope Flats, where the thin, dry air carries the scent of sun-baked earth and dormant grasses. During the long, golden hours of late afternoon, the light here turns a peculiar, translucent honey color, illuminating the dust motes that dance above the fallow fields and highlighting the stark, unadorned simplicity of the horizon.

Economic life in Petty remains deeply tethered to the slow cycles of agriculture, reflecting a history of endurance in a challenging, arid climate. While the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River flows far to the south, the local landscape is marked by the presence of Stud Duck Tank, a small, persistent body of water that serves as a quiet anchor for the surrounding acreage. Residents occasionally seek the modest shade and open space of Tahoka Mini Park for respite, though the character of the locality is best captured by the solitary work of those tending the land. There is a profound stillness in the way the days pass here, a rhythm dictated not by the haste of modern commerce, but by the steady, predictable movement of the sun across a wide and uninterrupted sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Smiley-Woodfin Native Prairie Grassland (Monument) — 6.1 mi, 065° NE
Dial Home (Monument) — 6.1 mi, 258° W
James Thomas Holt (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 260° W
Flying Tigers Museum (Museum) — 7.5 mi, 083° E
Caddo National Grassland (National Grassland) — 9.4 mi, 320° NW · 18k acres
Caddo National Grassland-Bois D'arc (State Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 320° NW
Gambill Goose Refuge (Local Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 053° NE
Gambill Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 10.8 mi, 053° NE
Lake Crook (Local Conservation Area) — 13.0 mi, 061° NE
Pat Mayse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.1 mi, 028° NE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Tx (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.3 mi, 093° E · 1,438 acres
Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 074° E
Lamar County Historical Museum (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 075° E
Pat Mayse Lake (Recreation Area) — 15.7 mi, 030° NE
Eiffel Tower (Attraction) — 16.3 mi, 082° E
Delta County Patterson Memorial Museum (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 158° S
Cooper Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 17.3 mi, 164° S
Cooper Lake State Park - Doctors Creek Unit (State Park) — 18.8 mi, 159° S
Fort Inglish Village (Museum) — 22.3 mi, 265° W
Cooper Lake State Park - South Sulphur Unit (State Park) — 22.7 mi, 165° S
Sunset Cove (Viewpoint) — 23.0 mi, 160° S
Oklahoma Awesome Adventures (Attraction) — 33.7 mi, 034° NE
Skydive Spaceland Dallas (Attraction) — 34.8 mi, 252° W
Deer Statue (Public Artwork) — 38.3 mi, 208° SW
The Attic (Attraction) — 38.5 mi, 208° SW
Gamescape by Cinemark (Cinema) — 39.9 mi, 208° SW
Waterfowl Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 42.5 mi, 028° NE
Nation Theater (Theatre) — 45.8 mi, 274° W
Little River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.6 mi, 068° E · 28k acres
Ouachita National Forest (National Forest) — 62.4 mi, 052° NE · 1.8M acres

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