Explore Rangerville, 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 Rangerville, 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 Rangerville.
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 | Rangerville |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Cameron County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.107445 |
| Longitude | -97.736637 |
| Population | 255 |
| Density | 28.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 78586 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Brownsville |
| School District | San Benito Consolidated Independent School District |
Rangerville persists as a quiet expanse of sun-bleached plains where the horizon stretches flat and wide, unburdened by the shadow of any distant peak. It lies 7.7 miles south-southwest of Harlingen, TX (from Harlingen, TX: bearing 205°T), and is situated 7.9 miles west-southwest of San Benito. The landscape here is defined by the steady, deliberate pace of the interior, where the light at dusk turns the dry grasses into shimmering bronze, casting long, lean silhouettes across the earth. To the north, the waters of Adams Winter Garden Reservoir hold the heat of the day, reflecting a sky that seems larger here than anywhere else. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the terrain holds a dormant, ancient stillness, occasionally broken only by the thin, silver line of the Harlingen Main Canal cutting through the dust. Even thirteen miles away, the silhouette of Harmony Hill offers the only true interruption to an otherwise unbroken, terrestrial sea of scrub and brush.
Rangerville remains anchored to the rhythms of an agrarian heritage, where the economy is written in the seasonal cycles of the soil and the endurance of those who work it. The land directly incorporates the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area, providing a sanctuary where the native flora and fauna persist undisturbed by the encroaching modern world. Residents often look toward the distant, rolling lines of Arroyo Anacuitas, a reminder of the geography that shaped the early settlement of these plains. On weekends, the local pace slows further as people gravitate toward the Arroyo Hike and Bike Trail, tracing paths that have been worn into the landscape over generations. Life in Rangerville possesses a singular, unadorned gravity, rooted in the hard-won lessons of the climate and the quiet persistence of a place that asks for little but offers a profound, solitary clarity to those who stay.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rangerville, Texas. Coordinates: 26.107445, -97.736637. 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 Rangerville includes the ZIP code (78586), telephone area code (830), county seat of Cameron County (Brownsville), and school district assignment (San Benito Consolidated 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. |