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Raywood Texas Map

Explore Raywood, 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 Raywood, Texas

How to Use This Raywood, Texas Map

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

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	Raywood
State	Texas (TX)
County	Liberty County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	30.041882
Longitude	-94.672142
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	77582
Area Code	281
County Seat	Liberty

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About Raywood, Texas

Raywood is a locality in Liberty County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Raywood is located at 30.0419°N, 94.6721°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 77582.

Raywood emerges from the flat, humid expanse of the coastal plains where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and salt-laden breezes drifting seventeen miles inland from the open sea. It lies 28.0 miles northeast of Baytown, TX (from Baytown, TX: bearing 41°T), and is situated 7.5 miles east of Liberty. Cow Island Bayou carves a slow, serpentine path through the landscape, its dark, sluggish waters reflecting the expansive sky and providing a lifeline to the low-lying terrain that stretches toward the horizon. To the west, the subtle depression of Blau Gully breaks the monotony of the fields, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Cedar Hill offers a rare verticality to an otherwise level vista. The quality of light here, particularly in the late afternoon, bleaches the colors of the tall grasses into a pale, ethereal gold, as if the sun itself were reluctant to abandon the quiet, marshy margins of Lee Cove.

Raywood maintains a steady, deliberate pace, its character defined by a long association with the fertile, stubborn soil and the rhythms of a rural economy rooted in agriculture. Nearby, the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge serves as a sanctuary where the dense vegetation and wildlife flourish, protected from the encroaching reach of development. Economic life in Raywood has historically been tied to the bounty of the land and the proximity to water, with local labor finding its purpose in the seasonal cycles of the fields and the maintenance of the infrastructure that keeps this low country navigable. While Pecan Lake sits eleven miles away, offering a quiet, inland mirror to the vastness of the coastal influence, the people of Raywood find their identity in the modest, persistent endurance of a place that is shaped more by the slow migration of water than by the frantic pace of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Liberty County (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 281° W
Homesite of George Orr (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 303° NW
Atascosito (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 303° NW
Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.4 mi, 301° NW · 58k acres
LIberty Municipal Park (Local Park) — 7.0 mi, 292° W
Travis Park (Local Park) — 7.9 mi, 288° W
Wallisville Lake (Recreation Area) — 8.9 mi, 199° S
Wallisville Heritage Park Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 185° S
Chambers County Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 14.4 mi, 172° S
Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge (Marine Protected Area) — 15.1 mi, 179° S
Big Thicket National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 16.1 mi, 360° N · 109k acres
Barbers Hill-Mont Belvieu Museum (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 222° SW
Lance Rosier Cemetery (Viewpoint) — 19.2 mi, 030° NE
Davis Hill State Park (State Park) — 19.8 mi, 338° N
Winnie-Stowell Horse Arena (Stadium) — 23.7 mi, 132° SE
Gator Country Wildlife Adventure Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 25.0 mi, 108° E
Cedar Bayou Stadium (Stadium) — 25.4 mi, 218° SW
Baytown Historical Museum (Museum) — 27.8 mi, 220° SW
The Crib (Historic Castle / Fort) — 28.7 mi, 213° SW
Wildwood Heritage Society Museum (Museum) — 29.6 mi, 039° NE
Tracey's Theatre (Theatre) — 30.1 mi, 230° SW
Eagle Springs Eagle Statue (Public Artwork) — 31.6 mi, 261° W
John Jay French Historic House Museum (Museum) — 32.0 mi, 081° E
Village Creek State Park (State Park) — 32.3 mi, 065° NE
Zip Lines (Attraction) — 33.3 mi, 289° W
Axe Throwing/Archery (Attraction) — 33.3 mi, 289° W
Performance Stage (Attraction) — 33.3 mi, 289° W
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 34.7 mi, 318° NW · 163k acres
Mcfaddin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.5 mi, 151° SE · 178k acres
J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 36.3 mi, 106° E

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