Quail Texas Map

About Quail, Texas

Quail is a locality in Collingsworth County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 17. The population density is 2.1 people per km². Quail is located at 34.9144°N, 100.3809°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 79251.

Quail sits amidst a sprawling, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon pulls tight against the sky, defining the vastness of the Panhandle plains. It lies 53.6 miles southeast of Pampa, TX (from Pampa, TX: bearing 144°T), and is situated 14.9 miles north-northeast of Memphis. The earth here is a palette of iron-rich dust and stubborn grasses, shaped by the slow, deliberate erosion of Dry Hollow and the quiet persistence of Buck Creek. Light at dusk possesses a singular, bruised clarity, casting long shadows that stretch across the open range until the land seems to dissolve into the deepening violet of the evening. It is a landscape of profound silence, broken only by the dry rasp of wind through stalks of grain or the sudden, erratic flight of a bird rising from the brush.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Quail, an economy written in the furrows of plowed fields and the steady, rhythmic labor of those who work the soil. The legacy of early settlement persists in the weathered fence lines and the rusted skeletons of machinery left to the weeds, markers of a time when the rhythm of existence was dictated entirely by the arrival of rain. Residents find their own measure of retreat at Pioneer Park, a quiet refuge where the pace of life slows to match the turning of the seasons. Far from the reach of any distant shore, the people here look not toward the water, but to the deep, resonant stillness of the plains and the distant shimmer of Soil Conservation Service Site 15 Reservoir, which holds the only mirror to the vast and cloud-filled sky.

About This Quail Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Quail, Texas. Coordinates: 34.914419, -100.380913. 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 Quail includes the ZIP code (79251), telephone area code (806), county seat of Collingsworth County (Wellington), and school district assignment (Hedley Independent School District).

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.