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Rock Island Texas Map

Explore Rock Island, 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 Rock Island, Texas

How to Use This Rock Island, Texas Map

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

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	Rock Island
State	Texas (TX)
County	Waller County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	29.513809
Longitude	-96.567123
Population	228
Density	17.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	75630, 77575, 77445, 77470
Area Code	281
County Seat	Hempstead
School District	Columbus Independent School District

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About Rock Island, Texas

Rock Island is a locality in Waller County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 228. The population density is 17.6 people per km². Rock Island is located at 29.5138°N, 96.5671°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 75630, 77575, 77445.

Rock Island emerges from the wide, flat expanse of the coastal prairie as a quiet congregation of structures defined by the vast, open sky above. It lies 16.3 miles east of Brenham, TX (from Brenham, TX: bearing 89°T), and is situated 9.9 miles northwest of Prairie View. The horizon stretches out in an unbroken line of grasses and low-lying shrubs, where the light at dusk flattens into a pale, bruised violet that seems to hold the heat of the day against the cooling earth. A mile away, the persistent, rhythmic flow of Donahoe Creek carves a thin, wooded vein through the landscape, providing a meager but essential refuge for the wildlife that navigates the surrounding plains. Further out, the terrain shifts with subtle, geological patience toward the distant prominence of Hockley Mound, a landmark that anchors the gaze in a country otherwise defined by its sheer, horizontal reach.

Rock Island carries a history etched into the remnants of early rail expansion, a time when the movement of freight and timber dictated the pulse of the local economy. Agriculture remains the quiet engine of the region, where the labor of the seasons is measured in the growth of crops and the maintenance of ranching fences that define the property lines of the countryside. Residents here maintain a deliberate pace, far removed from the density of urban centers, finding a sense of scale in the proximity of Hempstead City Park and the long, slow transit of the seasons across the fields. Even the distant water of Soil Conservation Service Site 6 Reservoir acts as a reminder of the careful management required to sustain life in this inland environment, where the character of the people is as resilient and steady as the deep, dark soil beneath their feet.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Garwood (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 113° SE
Marshall and Malinda Mitchell (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 276° W
First Producing Gas Well in Colorado County (Monument) — 11.6 mi, 118° SE
Columbus Golf Course (Local Park) — 12.8 mi, 002° N
Alley Log Cabin and Antique Tool Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 007° N
Stafford Bank and Opera House (Theatre) — 13.3 mi, 007° N
Tate-Senftenberg-Brandon House Museum (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 007° N
Open Space (Local Park) — 14.7 mi, 068° E
Prairie Edge Museum (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 070° E
Columbus Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 17.8 mi, 349° N
The Heritage Society Museum of Weimar (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 317° NW
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.3 mi, 049° NE · 21k acres
D.R. Wintermann Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 19.5 mi, 095° E
Egypt Plantation Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 111° E
Us-Tx-132-1 (Conservation Area) — 23.8 mi, 089° E
Lake Texana (Recreation Area) — 26.7 mi, 179° S
Showplace 3 (Cinema) — 27.7 mi, 143° SE
Palmetto Bend (Local Conservation Area) — 30.6 mi, 180° S
San Felipe de Austin (Attraction) — 33.1 mi, 056° NE
St Mary's Grotto (Attraction) — 33.2 mi, 060° NE
Stephen F Austin State Park (State Park) — 34.0 mi, 053° NE
Lyric Theater (Cinema) — 34.6 mi, 290° W
1824 Well (Attraction) — 34.7 mi, 054° NE
Stephen F. Austin (Attraction) — 34.7 mi, 054° NE
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.8 mi, 099° E · 193k acres
Shiner Gaslight Theater (Theatre) — 36.8 mi, 261° W
Rifle Association Hall (Registered Battlefield) — 39.3 mi, 349° N
Bastrop State Park (State Park) — 55.3 mi, 318° NW
Mad Island Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 63.8 mi, 152° SE
Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 75.4 mi, 120° SE

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