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Realitos Texas Map

Explore Realitos, 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 Realitos, Texas

How to Use This Realitos, Texas Map

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

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.

CityRealitos
StateTexas (TX)
CountyDuval County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude27.444758
Longitude-98.528347
Population121
Density175.6 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code78376
Area Code830
County SeatSan Diego
School DistrictBenavides Independent School District

About Realitos, Texas

Realitos is a locality in Duval County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 121. The population density is 175.6 people per km². Realitos is located at 27.4448°N, 98.5283°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78376.

Realitos anchors the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the South Texas brush country, where the land stretches out in a low, quiet rhythm of mesquite and prickly pear. It lies 35.2 miles southwest of Alice, TX (from Alice, TX: bearing 233°T), and is situated 13.3 miles northeast of Hebbronville. Macho Creek carves a shallow, intermittent path through this terrain, its bed often dry and white with silt, waiting for the sudden, heavy rains that occasionally transform the plains into a lush, temporary emerald. The horizon remains wide and unencumbered, interrupted only by the distant, hazy silhouette of Las Hermanas standing sentinel twenty-four miles to the west. Under the heat of the afternoon, the air shimmers with a dry, kinetic clarity that sharpens the edges of every fence line and rusted windmill, revealing a landscape that prefers austerity over ornament.

Realitos grew from the dust of the nineteenth-century rail expansion, serving as a vital artery for the cattle and oil industries that continue to define the local economy. The pace of life here is governed not by the clock, but by the necessities of ranching and the cyclical extraction of resources that have long sustained the families rooted in this soil. Residents seeking recreation often look toward Baseball Park, thirteen miles away, a space that offers a social reprieve from the demanding solitude of the surrounding scrubland. The heritage of the region remains etched in the bilingual cadence of daily conversation and the resilient spirit of those who manage the sprawling acreage, finding a stark, enduring beauty in the way the twilight deepens the gray-green foliage into shades of violet and indigo.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Old Hebbronville Cemetery (Monument) — 12.6 mi, 222° SW
  • Baseball Park (Local Park) — 12.6 mi, 227° SW
  • Merchants Exchange Bank (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 034° NE
  • Old Garza House (Monument) — 12.9 mi, 223° SW
  • Jim Hogg County Park (Local Park) — 13.2 mi, 225° SW
  • South Texas Museum (Museum) — 34.9 mi, 053° NE
  • Alice Municipal Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 36.4 mi, 052° NE
  • Lake Findley (Local Conservation Area) — 36.6 mi, 049° NE
  • South Pasture Research Facility (Recreation Easement) — 39.0 mi, 087° E
  • John E Conner Museum (Museum) — 40.1 mi, 082° E
  • Dick Kleberg Park (Local Recreation) — 40.6 mi, 087° E
  • 1904 Train Depot Museum (Museum) — 40.8 mi, 083° E
  • Rio 7 Cinemas (Cinema) — 42.2 mi, 085° E
  • Kenedy Ranch Museum of South Texas (Museum) — 47.8 mi, 109° E
  • Bulldog Stadium (Stadium) — 51.5 mi, 061° NE
  • Violet Museum (Museum) — 52.7 mi, 064° NE
  • Lake Casa Blanca State Park (State Park) — 55.5 mi, 277° W
  • Carlos Rene & Raquel G. Ramirez WIC Clinic and Health Center Mural (Public Artwork) — 58.0 mi, 272° W
  • Los Olvidados Art Gallery (Gallery) — 60.1 mi, 274° W
  • Fort McIntosh (Historic Castle / Fort) — 61.0 mi, 274° W
  • Star Fort, Fort McIntosh (Historic Castle / Fort) — 61.1 mi, 275° W
  • Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 67.2 mi, 156° SE · 277k acres
  • Padre Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 70.1 mi, 096° E · 262k acres
  • James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 70.2 mi, 001° N
  • Choke Canyon State Park (State Park) — 70.8 mi, 009° N
  • Mesquite Street Comedy Club (Theatre) — 73.5 mi, 070° E
  • K Space Contemporary (Gallery) — 73.6 mi, 070° E
  • Robert E. Salle Observation Pavilion (Viewpoint) — 73.9 mi, 070° E
  • Fan Pavillion (Attraction) — 74.2 mi, 070° E
  • Chaparral Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 77.1 mi, 319° NW

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About This Realitos Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Realitos, Texas. Coordinates: 27.444758, -98.528347. 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 Realitos includes the ZIP code (78376), telephone area code (830), county seat of Duval County (San Diego), and school district assignment (Benavides 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.