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Rancho Banquete Texas Map

Explore Rancho Banquete, 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 Banquete, Texas

How to Use This Rancho Banquete, Texas Map

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

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.

CityRancho Banquete
StateTexas (TX)
CountyNueces County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude27.809394
Longitude-97.845486
Population459
Density61.9 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code78380
Area Code830
County SeatCorpus Christi
School DistrictBanquete Independent School District

About Rancho Banquete, Texas

Rancho Banquete is a locality in Nueces County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 459. The population density is 61.9 people per km². Rancho Banquete is located at 27.8094°N, 97.8455°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78380.

Rancho Banquete stretches across a wide, sun-bleached expanse of South Texas prairie where the horizon line remains uninterrupted by anything but the occasional fence post or distant cluster of mesquite. It lies 10.2 miles west of Robstown, TX (from Robstown, TX: bearing 278°T), and is situated 15.0 miles east-northeast of Alice. The air here holds a dry, heat-thickened quality, vibrating with the rhythmic drone of cicadas during the long, amber-hued afternoons. To the north, the terrain dips toward the modest banks of Agua Dulce Creek, a narrow ribbon of water that provides a singular, cooling respite amidst the dust-moted plains. While the Carmel Hills rise as a faint, hazy suggestion of topography nineteen miles away, the immediate surroundings of Rancho Banquete possess a flat, uncompromising geometry that emphasizes the sheer scale of the sky above.

Economic life in Rancho Banquete remains tethered to the patient cycles of agriculture and the underlying pulse of the energy industry, maintaining a quiet continuity that defies the frantic pace of larger urban centers. Residents often find their leisure beneath the sparse shade of the trees at John J Sablatura Park, a local space that serves as a communal anchor for the surrounding agricultural tracts. The legacy of the region is written in the endurance of its ranching families and the shifting fortunes of the oil patch, both of which have shaped the temperament of the people who call this place home. Even as sixteen miles of parched earth separate the village from the stillness of Lake Corpus Christi, the daily life of Rancho Banquete revolves around the pragmatic, earth-bound virtues of resilience and a deep-seated connection to the land itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • John J Sablatura Park (Local Park) — 1.6 mi, 124° SE
  • Agua Dulce (Monument) — 2.0 mi, 348° N
  • Banquete C.S.A. (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 095° E
  • Bulldog Stadium (Stadium) — 3.1 mi, 092° E
  • Banquete Cemtery (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 090° E
  • Violet Museum (Museum) — 5.8 mi, 109° E
  • Robstown County Park (Local Park) — 9.9 mi, 090° E
  • San Patricio Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 012° N
  • Lake Findley (Local Conservation Area) — 12.9 mi, 268° W
  • Alice Municipal Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 13.0 mi, 259° W
  • South Texas Museum (Museum) — 14.6 mi, 254° W
  • Lake Corpus Christi State Park (State Park) — 17.0 mi, 354° N
  • West Guth Park (Local Recreation) — 17.5 mi, 085° E
  • John E Conner Museum (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 186° S
  • 1904 Train Depot Museum (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 184° S
  • Rio 7 Cinemas (Cinema) — 21.3 mi, 180° S
  • St. John Paul II Statue (Public Artwork) — 26.3 mi, 105° E
  • Tejano Civil Rights Museum (Museum) — 27.5 mi, 090° E
  • Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 27.5 mi, 092° E
  • Robert E. Salle Observation Pavilion (Viewpoint) — 27.5 mi, 089° E
  • K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 27.6 mi, 092° E
  • Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 089° E
  • Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation (Nature Reserve) — 32.7 mi, 049° NE
  • Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 38.9 mi, 120° SE · 262k acres
  • Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 39.9 mi, 066° NE
  • Mustang Island State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 40.6 mi, 103° E
  • Rialto Theater (Theatre) — 41.4 mi, 008° N
  • WWII Bunker Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 48.4 mi, 088° E
  • Choke Canyon State Park (State Park) — 51.5 mi, 332° NW
  • Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 57.6 mi, 064° NE · 298k acres

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About This Rancho Banquete Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rancho Banquete, Texas. Coordinates: 27.809394, -97.845486. 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 Rancho Banquete includes the ZIP code (78380), telephone area code (830), county seat of Nueces County (Corpus Christi), and school district assignment (Banquete 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.