Rio Frio Texas Map
Explore Rio Frio, 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 Rio Frio, Texas
How to Use This Rio Frio, Texas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rio Frio, 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 Rio Frio.
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 | Rio Frio |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Real County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 29.63606 |
| Longitude | -99.736723 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 5.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 78879 |
| Area Code | 512, 830 |
| County Seat | Leakey |
About Rio Frio, Texas
Rio Frio is a locality in Real County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Rio Frio is located at 29.6361°N, 99.7367°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78879.Rio Frio occupies a quiet expanse of limestone and brush where the Little Dry Frio Creek carves a persistent path through the limestone basin of Pole Hollow. It lies 29.6 miles north of Uvalde, TX (from Uvalde, TX: bearing 6°T), and is situated 45.7 miles southwest of Kerrville. The light here settles heavily, turning the dry grasses to a pale, brittle gold by mid-afternoon and casting long, sharp shadows against the scrub oak that clings to the rugged terrain. While the distant silhouette of the Edwards Plateau marks the northern horizon, the immediate landscape is defined by the slow, seasonal pulse of the creek and the dense thickets of juniper that hold the soil against the heat. Two miles away, the rugged topography shifts into the protected limestone canyons of Garner State Park, where the air cools and the terrain grows vertical, offering a respite from the vast, sun-baked plains that stretch toward the horizon.
Rio Frio maintains a rhythm dictated by the land, surviving on a heritage of ranching and the seasonal influx of visitors who travel the Garner State Park Trail to witness the changing foliage. Economic life here is sparse and tethered to the earth, moving in accordance with the cattle cycles and the periodic rise of the creek after heavy rains. The inhabitants possess a quiet endurance, shaped by the isolation of the basin and the necessity of managing water in a parched landscape. Life in Rio Frio feels suspended between the demands of modern survival and the stark, unyielding permanence of the geology, a place where the history is written not in monuments, but in the enduring tracks across the caliche and the persistent, quiet growth of the cedar brakes.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Lombardy Irrigation Ditch (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 203° SW
- Garner State Park (State Park) — 2.1 mi, 170° S
- Overlook (Viewpoint) — 3.4 mi, 180° S
- Civilian Conservation Corps at Garner State Park (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 178° S
- Crystal Cave (Attraction) — 3.6 mi, 184° S
- White Rock Cave (Attraction) — 3.8 mi, 181° S
- Rock Pile on top of Ol Baldy (Monument) — 4.2 mi, 175° S
- Dehnisch (Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 126° SE
- Wallace (Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 139° SE
- Sabinal Canyon Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 115° SE
- Lost Maples State Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.7 mi, 031° NE
- Krause Ranch (Park) — 15.8 mi, 355° N
- Real County Historical Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 347° N
- Nueces Canyon Historical Museum (Museum) — 16.7 mi, 278° W
- Charles Lindbergh In Camp Wood, 1924 (Public Artwork) — 16.7 mi, 278° W
- Briscoe-Garner Museum (Museum) — 29.5 mi, 187° S
- Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 29.6 mi, 186° S
- Cooks Slough Nature Park (Nature Reserve) — 31.4 mi, 186° S
- Kickapoo Cavern State Park (State Park) — 41.0 mi, 268° W
- Hondo Welcome Sign (Attraction) — 41.3 mi, 119° SE
- Hill Country Arts Foundation - Main Building & Gift Shop (Arts Centre) — 42.0 mi, 044° NE
- The Point Theatre (Theatre) — 42.0 mi, 044° NE
- Duncan-McAshan Visual Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 42.1 mi, 044° NE
- Fort Clark Guardhouse (Museum) — 47.0 mi, 241° SW
- Amistad National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 68.7 mi, 264° W · 54k acres
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About This Rio Frio Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rio Frio, Texas. Coordinates: 29.63606, -99.736723. 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 Rio Frio includes the ZIP code (78879), telephone area code (512, 830), county seat of Real County (Leakey), and school district assignment.
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. |
