Explore Quanah, 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 Quanah, 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 Quanah.
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 | Quanah |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Hardeman County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.297855 |
| Longitude | -99.740372 |
| Population | 2,279 |
| Density | 253.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 79252 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| County Seat | Quanah |
| School District | Quanah Independent School District |
Quanah sits upon the expansive, sun-bleached plains of the Texas Panhandle, a place where the horizon stretches flat and uncompromising until it meets a sky of immense, pale clarity. It lies 33.0 miles southwest of Altus, OK (from Altus, OK: bearing 225°T), and is situated 28.9 miles west-northwest of Vernon. The landscape is defined by the subtle, rugged contours of the earth, punctuated four miles out by the silhouette of Flat Top. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of City of Quanah Lake mirror the shifting moods of the atmosphere, while the persistent, thin thread of Spring Creek carves its way through the parched soil nearby. Dust motes dance in the late afternoon heat, catching a golden, amber light that seems to hold the day in suspension, cooling the skin just as the shadows begin to lengthen across the dry grasses.
Quanah carries the weight of a complex frontier legacy, its identity inextricably linked to the history of the Comanche people and the cattle trails that once defined the rhythm of the region. The local economy persists through the resilience of agricultural labor and the steady pulse of ranching, which remains the lifeblood of the surrounding acreage. Residents look toward Copper Breaks State Park for a connection to the raw, rugged terrain that characterizes this part of the world, or they find refuge in the deeper, shadowed folds of Ewell Hollow. Life in Quanah moves with a deliberate, quiet cadence, shaped by the cycles of the harvest and the enduring, stoic character of those who have made this land their own through generations of labor and change.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Quanah, Texas. Coordinates: 34.297855, -99.740372. 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 Quanah includes the ZIP code (79252), telephone area code (806), county seat of Hardeman County (Quanah), and school district assignment (Quanah 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. |