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Roby Texas Map

Explore Roby, 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 Roby, Texas

How to Use This Roby, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.744831
Longitude	-100.377607
Population	591
Density	317.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	79543
Area Code	806
County Seat	Roby
School District	Roby Consolidated Independent School District

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About Roby, Texas

Roby is a locality in Fisher County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 591. The population density is 317.4 people per km². Roby is located at 32.7448°N, 100.3776°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Roby is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79543.

Roby occupies a wide, sun-drenched expanse of the Texas plains where the sky seems to hold more weight than the earth itself. It lies 19.0 miles north of Sweetwater, TX (from Sweetwater, TX: bearing 5°T), and is situated 17.5 miles west-southwest of Hamlin. Cottonwood Creek carves a shallow, seasonal path near the perimeter of Roby, its banks often dry and bleached by the relentless heat that defines the rhythm of the season. To the distant west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Devils Backbone provides a singular break in the horizon, though the immediate landscape remains defined by the persistent, flat reach of prairie grass and hard-packed soil. At twilight, the light stretches thin and amber across the fields, turning the dust kicked up by passing trucks into a fleeting, golden haze that settles over the low-slung buildings.

Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, with the surrounding fields organized into vast, geometric grids of cotton and sorghum that shift color with the turning of the calendar. The history of the area is anchored in the determination of those who first broke this stubborn ground, a legacy reflected in the quiet, utilitarian architecture of the courthouse and the weathered siding of long-standing homesteads. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the proximity of the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (W.T. Martin Ranch), where the preservation of the native landscape remains a quiet priority. Residents occasionally look toward the deeper depressions of Coon Hollow or the still, reflective surface of Gober Lake for a reprieve from the heat, finding a spare, rugged beauty in the way the shadows lengthen against the silence of the open plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fisher County (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 011° N
Organization of Fisher County (Monument) — 0.0 mi, 012° N
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (W.T. Martin Ranch) (Park) — 9.5 mi, 252° W
Woods Chapel Cemetery (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 085° E
Santa Fe Park (Local Park) — 17.4 mi, 183° S
Newman Park (Local Park) — 17.8 mi, 187° S
Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 18.8 mi, 185° S
Lake Sweetwater Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 21.1 mi, 169° S
Oriana Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 29.6 mi, 354° N
Cowboy Country Museum (Museum) — 36.2 mi, 067° NE
Heart of West Texas Museum (Museum) — 37.5 mi, 229° SW
Maddin Prairie (Park) — 38.1 mi, 219° SW
Myers Memorial Arena (Stadium) — 41.2 mi, 116° SE
Morgan Jones Planetarium (Museum) — 41.2 mi, 119° SE
Fort Phantom Hill (Attraction) — 41.2 mi, 100° E
Petrified Tree (Attraction) — 41.7 mi, 116° SE
Behrens Auditorium (Theatre) — 41.8 mi, 116° SE
Van Ellis Theatre (Theatre) — 41.8 mi, 116° SE
Lake Colorado City State Park (State Park) — 42.3 mi, 229° SW
Good Night Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 42.5 mi, 118° SE
Lake Alan Henry Wildlife Habitat Area (Local Conservation Area) — 42.7 mi, 299° NW
Elmer Gray Stadium (Stadium) — 43.2 mi, 116° SE
Women for Abilene Christian University Museum (Museum) — 43.3 mi, 116° SE
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 43.7 mi, 142° SE
CCC stonework (Historic Ruins) — 45.6 mi, 140° SE
Sam Wahl Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 45.9 mi, 298° NW
Fort Chadbourne (Historic Castle / Fort) — 49.5 mi, 171° S
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.4 mi, 330° NW · 14k acres

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