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Rose City Texas Map

Explore Rose City, 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 Rose City, Texas

How to Use This Rose City, Texas Map

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

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	Rose City
State	Texas (TX)
County	Orange County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	30.102712
Longitude	-94.051844
Population	326
Density	83.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	77662
Area Code	281
County Seat	Orange
School District	Vidor Independent School District

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About Rose City, Texas

Rose City is a locality in Orange County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 326. The population density is 83.2 people per km². Rose City is located at 30.1027°N, 94.0518°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rose City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 77662.

Rose City sits upon a flat, humid expanse where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and salt-tinged winds drifting from the McFadden Bend Cutoff. It lies 3.2 miles east-northeast of Beaumont, TX (from Beaumont, TX: bearing 69°T), and is situated 9.6 miles north-northwest of Nederland. Bairds Bayou carves a slow, serpentine path through the low-lying terrain, its dark waters reflecting the erratic, golden light that filters through the dense canopy of the nearby Big Thicket National Preserve. Beyond the immediate thickets, the ground settles into the low, marshy reaches of Brakes Bayou, while the horizon is interrupted only by the distant, industrial silhouette of Spindletop Hill. The landscape is a quiet study in persistence, where moisture clings to the tall grasses and the sky seems to press down with a vast, humid weight, blurring the edges where the land meets the shallow, brackish reaches of Sabine Lake.

Economic life in Rose City remains inextricably linked to the pulse of the oil industry and the lingering echoes of the great petroleum booms that once surged across the region. While the modern pace is measured and deliberate, the proximity to the Babe Didrickson Zaharias Park Trail provides a quiet reprieve, drawing those who seek to traverse the flat, sun-drenched pathways that skirt the local wetlands. Smith Island remains a silent point of reference in the maritime geography of the area, a physical reminder of the shifting silts and tidal rhythms that have shaped this corner of the gulf plains for generations. Rose City persists as a place of singular, quiet industry, where the legacy of the earth’s subterranean wealth continues to define the character of the people who dwell among the bayous and the pines.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Big Thicket National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 352° N · 109k acres
Collier's Ferry Recreation Area & Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 297° NW
Riverfront Park (Local Park) — 2.8 mi, 239° SW
Neches Marsh (Park) — 2.9 mi, 155° SE
Port of Beaumont (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 236° SW
Police Chief Reid Tevis (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 269° W
Andrew F. Smyth (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 268° W
Beaumont Police Museum (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 239° SW
Texas Energy Museum (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 242° SW
Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 244° SW
Pirate Pride Park (Local Park) — 3.1 mi, 055° NE
Magnolia Park (Local Recreation) — 3.4 mi, 274° W
Babe Zaharias Park (Local Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 266° W
Beaumont Art League (Museum) — 3.7 mi, 270° W
Mildred Buildings (Attraction) — 3.7 mi, 251° W
McFaddin-Ward House Museum (Museum) — 3.9 mi, 254° W
Purple Stadium (Stadium) — 4.8 mi, 250° W
Lower Neches Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 6.9 mi, 125° SE
Village Creek State Park (State Park) — 9.9 mi, 336° NW
B&B Port Arthur Central Mall 10 (Cinema) — 11.4 mi, 161° S
J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 13.1 mi, 185° S
Gator Country Wildlife Adventure Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 17.9 mi, 228° SW
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.2 mi, 118° SE · 374k acres
Sims House (Historic Ruins) — 18.8 mi, 093° E
Heritage House of Orange County (Historic Ruins) — 18.8 mi, 093° E
Welcome to Texas Sign (Attraction) — 20.2 mi, 086° E
Texas Star (Public Artwork) — 20.3 mi, 086° E
Blue Elbow Swamp (Viewpoint) — 20.3 mi, 086° E
Mcfaddin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.5 mi, 177° S · 178k acres
Winnie-Stowell Horse Arena (Stadium) — 28.0 mi, 224° SW

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