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Rancho Alegre Texas Map

Explore Rancho Alegre, 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 Rancho Alegre, Texas

How to Use This Rancho Alegre, Texas Map

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

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	Rancho Alegre
State	Texas (TX)
County	Jim Wells County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	27.741694
Longitude	-98.094725
Population	1,415
Density	427.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	78332
Area Code	830
County Seat	Alice
School District	Alice Independent School District

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About Rancho Alegre, Texas

Rancho Alegre is a locality in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,415. The population density is 427.5 people per km². Rancho Alegre is located at 27.7417°N, 98.0947°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78332.

Rancho Alegre emerges from the dust and heat of the South Texas plains as a quiet intersection of mesquite scrub and sun-bleached earth. It lies 1.7 miles west-southwest of Alice, TX (from Alice, TX: bearing 245°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east of San Diego. The landscape finds its primary definition in the slow, seasonal pulse of Lattas Creek, which carves a shallow, verdant artery through the otherwise arid brushland less than a mile from the center. Beyond the town limits, the terrain stretches out in a vast, pale expanse where the light at dusk turns the dry grasses into a shimmering, bruised gold, casting long, skeletal shadows that seem to hold the land in a state of suspended animation. A mile away, the Unnamed Park offers a modest sanctuary of native flora, providing a small, quiet perimeter where the silence of the prairie remains undisturbed by the modern velocity of the outside world.

Economic life in Rancho Alegre remains tethered to the traditional rhythms of the region, where the labor of the soil and the maintenance of livestock define the passage of the calendar. The legacy of early ranching families persists in the architecture and the deliberate, measured pace of the local inhabitants, who navigate the day with a pragmatic understanding of the heat and the limited water resources available in this interior corridor. While Tranquitas Lake sits fifteen miles away as a distant, glassy point of reference for those seeking a respite from the dust, the daily reality here is one of endurance and the steady, unadorned work of survival. There is a palpable sense of permanence in the way the town clings to its history, a stubborn commitment to a way of life that values the heavy, still air of the afternoon as much as the productive output of the surrounding fields.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unnamed Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 104° E
Jim Wells County (Monument) — 0.6 mi, 068° E
Charles Brazzell Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 077° E
Alice Cemetery (Monument) — 1.1 mi, 102° E
McGill Brothers Building (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 066° NE
South Texas Museum (Museum) — 1.4 mi, 067° NE
West Park (Local Recreation) — 2.0 mi, 043° NE
Alice Municipal Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 2.9 mi, 044° NE
Lake Findley (Local Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 024° NE
Bulldog Stadium (Stadium) — 18.9 mi, 076° E
John E Conner Museum (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 139° SE
1904 Train Depot Museum (Museum) — 20.8 mi, 138° SE
Violet Museum (Museum) — 20.9 mi, 082° E
Rio 7 Cinemas (Cinema) — 22.7 mi, 137° SE
Lake Corpus Christi State Park (State Park) — 25.4 mi, 031° NE
Grace Armantrout Museum (Museum) — 39.7 mi, 358° N
St. John Paul II Statue (Public Artwork) — 40.7 mi, 093° E
Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 42.9 mi, 085° E
K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 43.0 mi, 085° E
Robert E. Salle Observation Pavilion (Viewpoint) — 43.1 mi, 083° E
Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 43.3 mi, 083° E
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 47.7 mi, 057° NE
Rialto Theater (Theatre) — 50.3 mi, 025° NE
Choke Canyon State Park (State Park) — 50.7 mi, 348° N
Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 50.8 mi, 119° SE · 262k acres
Mustang Island State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 55.0 mi, 094° E
Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 55.7 mi, 068° E
WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 64.0 mi, 084° E
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 73.4 mi, 066° NE · 298k acres
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 79.4 mi, 175° S · 277k acres

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