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Rising Star Texas Map

Explore Rising Star, 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 Rising Star, Texas

How to Use This Rising Star, Texas Map

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

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	Rising Star
State	Texas (TX)
County	Eastland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.095974
Longitude	-98.963671
Population	756
Density	169.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	76471
Area Code	254
County Seat	Eastland
School District	Rising Star Independent School District

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About Rising Star, Texas

Rising Star is a locality in Eastland County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 756. The population density is 169.0 people per km². Rising Star is located at 32.0960°N, 98.9637°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rising Star is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 76471.

Rising Star occupies a stretch of sun-bleached prairie where the horizon pulls wide and flat, broken only by the thin, meandering line of Copperas Creek as it cuts through the local topography. It lies 26.8 miles north of Brownwood, TX (from Brownwood, TX: bearing 3°T), and is situated 30.6 miles west of Highland. The air here holds a dry, persistent heat that clarifies the edges of every fence post and mesquite thicket, casting long, sharp shadows that stretch toward the Soil Conservation Service Site 1 Reservoir six miles away. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Edwards Plateau remains far beyond the reach of the local landscape, the immediate earth is defined by a deep, ochre soil that clings to the boots of those who work the land. At dusk, the sky shifts through a bruised spectrum of violet and burnt orange, bathing the quiet fields in a light that seems to hold the day’s heat long after the sun has dipped out of view.

Rising Star emerged from the ambition of early settlers who recognized the potential of this inland expanse, building an economy that relies on the endurance of agriculture and the steady, unsung labor of ranching. Life here moves in alignment with the seasonal cycles of the harvest, far removed from the frantic pace of larger hubs and defined instead by the maintenance of local homesteads and the shared silence of the open range. The McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area, located fourteen miles away, serves as a reminder of the wilder, scrub-covered character that persists at the edges of human cultivation. In the quiet intersections of the main thoroughfares, the rhythm of daily life is measured by the passing of heavy trucks and the distant, rhythmic hum of local industry, grounding the identity of Rising Star in the persistent, unadorned reality of the Texas plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

First United Methodist Church of Rising Star (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 261° W
Rising Star (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 270° W
Wolf Valley Cemetery (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 160° S
McGillivray and Leona McKie Muse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.2 mi, 159° S
Muse Wildlife Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 16.0 mi, 152° SE
Lake Brownwood State Park (State Park) — 16.4 mi, 193° S
Fabis Park (Local Park) — 21.6 mi, 182° S
Municipal Baseball And Softball Complex And Fields (Local Recreation) — 21.9 mi, 020° N
Comanche County Museum (Museum) — 22.1 mi, 126° SE
Austin McCloud Appellate Court Museum (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 022° N
Ol' Rip (Attraction) — 22.7 mi, 022° N
Campbell's Tomato Soup (Public Artwork) — 23.4 mi, 026° NE
Ringling Lake Park (Local Park) — 23.6 mi, 019° N
Proctor Lake (Recreation Area) — 24.0 mi, 104° E
Proctor Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 24.6 mi, 105° E
Regal Heartland (Cinema) — 24.7 mi, 180° S
Brown County Museum of History (Museum) — 25.8 mi, 182° S
Lyric Theatre (Theatre) — 26.0 mi, 182° S
Martin & Frances Lehnis Railroad Musuem (Museum) — 26.2 mi, 182° S
Camp Bowie Family Aquatic Center (Local Recreation) — 29.8 mi, 182° S
Callahan County Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 32.6 mi, 309° NW
Thurber Smokestack (Attraction) — 42.8 mi, 048° NE
Art Briles Stadium (Stadium) — 43.1 mi, 079° E
Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 44.1 mi, 079° E
John Tarleton Ranch House (Attraction) — 45.6 mi, 079° E
Carriage House (Attraction) — 45.6 mi, 079° E
Roger R Fawcett Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 51.4 mi, 048° NE
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 54.2 mi, 281° W

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