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Roaring Springs Texas Map

Explore Roaring Springs, 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 Roaring Springs, Texas

How to Use This Roaring Springs, Texas Map

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

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.

CityRoaring Springs
StateTexas (TX)
CountyMotley County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude33.899524
Longitude-100.85708
Population217
Density78.9 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code79256
Area Code806
County SeatMatador
School DistrictMotley County Independent School District

About Roaring Springs, Texas

Roaring Springs is a locality in Motley County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 217. The population density is 78.9 people per km². Roaring Springs is located at 33.8995°N, 100.8571°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Roaring Springs is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79256.

Roaring Springs emerges from the high, arid plains of West Texas as a quiet witness to the shifting light that stretches across the cracked earth at dusk. It lies 52.5 miles east-southeast of Plainview, TX (from Plainview, TX: bearing 112°T), and is situated 15.8 miles east-northeast of Wake. The landscape surrounding Roaring Springs is defined by the subtle, persistent erosion of the terrain, where Dutchman Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the brush just a mile away, and the pale, dusty expanse of Shinnery Draw defines the horizon. To the west, the distant profile of Boone Mountain rises against the sky, a singular, jagged silhouette that anchors the vastness. When the sun retreats, the air loses its sharp, dry heat, leaving behind a stillness that settles over the prairie like a heavy, cooling blanket, tinting the scrubland in shades of bruised purple and deep ochre.

Agriculture and the rhythms of the ranching life have long dictated the pace of existence here, tethering the local economy to the cycles of the seasons and the unpredictable yield of the soil. Beyond the quiet domesticity of the streets, the presence of Seale Lake, three miles away, offers a rare, dark mirror to the wide, expansive sky, providing a necessary reprieve from the relentless intensity of the plains. History here is written not in grand monuments, but in the endurance of those who carved a living from this unforgiving geology, where the land demands a certain stoicism from its inhabitants. Life in Roaring Springs moves with a deliberate, measured gravity, reflecting a culture that values the weight of silence and the simple, honest labor required to persist in such a solitary corner of the world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Roaring Springs Depot (Monument) — 0.1 mi, 126° SE
  • Roaring Spring (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 188° S
  • Matador Ranch (Monument) — 7.0 mi, 014° N
  • Motley County Jail Museum (Museum) — 8.2 mi, 014° N
  • Dickens County Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 177° S
  • Matador Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 24.2 mi, 054° NE
  • Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.2 mi, 186° S · 14k acres
  • Caprock Canyons Trailway (State Recreation Area) — 28.0 mi, 327° NW
  • Arrow Sculture (Public Artwork) — 28.8 mi, 180° S
  • River Crest Road Park (Local Park) — 32.7 mi, 203° SW
  • White River Marina (Local Recreation) — 33.1 mi, 204° SW
  • Ralls Historical Museum (Museum) — 33.9 mi, 243° SW
  • Bob Wills Museum (Museum) — 34.0 mi, 356° N
  • Caprock Canyons State Park (State Park) — 36.5 mi, 344° N
  • Texas Tech University New Deal Farm - Beef Unit (Recreation Easement) — 50.4 mi, 258° W
  • Childress County Heritage Museum (Museum) — 51.8 mi, 046° NE
  • J. V. Hilliard Filed (Stadium) — 54.0 mi, 292° W
  • Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 54.5 mi, 038° NE · 15k acres
  • Engine 1809 (Attraction) — 55.3 mi, 235° SW
  • Lake Alan Henry Wildlife Habitat Area (Local Conservation Area) — 55.9 mi, 191° S
  • Oriana Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 55.9 mi, 154° SE
  • Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Attraction) — 58.5 mi, 254° W
  • East Lubbock Art House (Arts Centre) — 59.2 mi, 249° W
  • Council Ring (Theatre) — 59.7 mi, 212° SW
  • Sam Wahl Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 59.8 mi, 193° S
  • Santa Land (Attraction) — 59.9 mi, 249° W
  • Tornado Gallery (Gallery) — 60.9 mi, 249° W
  • Battle of Yellow House Canyon (Registered Battlefield) — 62.0 mi, 253° W
  • Playa Lakes Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 68.6 mi, 003° N
  • Palo Duro Canyon State Park (State Park) — 76.5 mi, 328° NW

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About This Roaring Springs Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Roaring Springs, Texas. Coordinates: 33.899524, -100.85708. 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 Roaring Springs includes the ZIP code (79256), telephone area code (806), county seat of Motley County (Matador), and school district assignment (Motley County 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.