Explore Ralls, 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 Ralls, 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 Ralls.
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 | Ralls |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Crosby County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.674252 |
| Longitude | -101.387656 |
| Population | 1,665 |
| Density | 476.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 79357 |
| Area Code | 806 |
| County Seat | Crosbyton |
| School District | Ralls Independent School District |
Ralls occupies a vast, level expanse of the South Plains, where the horizon stretches so thin and wide that the sky appears to possess more weight than the earth itself. It lies 27.7 miles east-northeast of Lubbock, TX (from Lubbock, TX: bearing 76°T), and is situated 18.4 miles west-southwest of Wake. The landscape is defined by the steady, rhythmic geometry of cultivated fields, interrupted only by the occasional rise of distant, subtle elevations like Indian Hill, which marks the edge of vision fifteen miles away. Even when the air grows still, the light at dusk holds a particular, honeyed clarity that illuminates the dust motes dancing above the dry soil, casting long, lean shadows that seem to anchor the town firmly against the immense, open heavens. While Crawfish Creek meanders through the surrounding terrain eight miles out, the land remains defined by its deep, thirsty topsoil and the quiet intensity of the sun.
Agriculture serves as the heartbeat of Ralls, a legacy forged in the labor of planting and harvesting that has dictated the local tempo for generations. The economic life here remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, though the reach of modern research is never far, evidenced by the proximity of the Texas Tech University New Deal Farm - Beef Unit nineteen miles to the west. Life in Ralls moves with the deliberate, unadorned pace of those who watch the weather with a keen, practiced eye, understanding that prosperity is written in the rainfall and the seasonal cycle of the crops. Though Buffalo Springs Lake lies twenty miles distant, the people here look primarily to the immediate, hardworking character of their own streets, where a sense of persistence and quiet community pride endures beneath the expansive, cloud-dappled firmament.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ralls, Texas. Coordinates: 33.674252, -101.387656. 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 Ralls includes the ZIP code (79357), telephone area code (806), county seat of Crosby County (Crosbyton), and school district assignment (Ralls 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. |