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Rye Texas Map

Explore Rye, 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 Rye, Texas

How to Use This Rye, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	30.729363
Longitude	-96.490244
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	77807, 77369
Area Code	409, 713, 832
County Seat	Liberty

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About Rye, Texas

Rye is a locality in Liberty County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Rye is located at 30.7294°N, 96.4902°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 77807, 77369.

Rye emerges from the dense, tangled undergrowth of the East Texas timberlands as a quiet clearing where the humidity clings to the skin like a damp wool blanket. It lies 33.5 miles northeast of New Caney, TX (from New Caney, TX: bearing 52°T), and is situated 16.5 miles south-southeast of Providence. The landscape surrounding Rye is defined by the heavy, loamy soil of the lowlands, where the persistent shade of towering pines creates a stillness that feels permanent. Cherry Creek meanders through the periphery, its dark, sluggish waters carving a slow path through the thicket, while the dense canopy of the Big Thicket National Preserve looms just a mile away, pressing against the edges of the clearing with an impenetrable wall of green. Ten miles to the west, the subtle rise of Davis Hill breaks the horizon, a modest elevation that provides the only real interruption to the flat, verdant sprawl of the forest floor, casting long, bruised-purple shadows as the sun retreats behind the pines.

Rye maintains a pace dictated by the rhythms of the forest and the slow, steady labor of those who work the land and the nearby industrial corridors. The local economy has long been tethered to the bounty of the woods and the quiet persistence of rural life, far removed from the clamor of larger hubs. History here is kept not in grand monuments, but in the way the local timber yields to the wind and the memories held by those who have watched the seasons cycle through the brush. Even when the heat of the afternoon makes the air shimmer, one can find a singular clarity in the way light filters through the pine needles, turning the dust into motes of gold. Beyond the immediate reach of the clearing, the path toward the distant Deer Gully or the still, reflective surface of Brushy Lake remains a testament to the vast, quiet expanse that defines the character of Rye.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Lake Bryan Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 2.1 mi, 138° SE
Staggers Point (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 052° NE
El Camino Real (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 052° NE
Bryan Regional Athletic Complex (Local Park) — 4.9 mi, 101° E
Steele's Store Community (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 220° SW
StageCenter Community Theatre (Theatre) — 7.8 mi, 118° SE
Square One Art Gallery (Public Artwork) — 7.8 mi, 119° SE
The Grand Stafford Theater (Theatre) — 7.9 mi, 119° SE
Earth Art (Attraction) — 8.0 mi, 119° SE
Children's Museum of Brazos Valley (Museum) — 8.1 mi, 119° SE
City Course At The Phillips Event Center (Local Recreation) — 9.8 mi, 116° SE
Moran (Local Park) — 10.3 mi, 128° SE
Star Cinema Grill (Cinema) — 11.5 mi, 129° SE
M. Benz Gallery of Floral Art (Gallery) — 11.9 mi, 130° SE
J Wayne Stark University Center Galleries (Gallery) — 12.0 mi, 132° SE
MSC Forsyth Galleries (Gallery) — 12.0 mi, 132° SE
Texas A&M University Aquaculture Research Teaching Facility (Recreation Easement) — 12.4 mi, 162° S
Burleson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 221° SW
Burleson County Czech Heritage Museum (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 222° SW
Somerville Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 182° S
Lake Somerville Trailway State Park (State Park) — 29.8 mi, 199° S
Milam County Historical Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 286° W
Lake Somerville State Park - Nails Creek Unit (State Park) — 30.5 mi, 211° SW
Overlook (Viewpoint) — 31.6 mi, 199° S
Miller's Theater (Cinema) — 33.6 mi, 134° SE
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 42.1 mi, 106° E · 163k acres
Little Lake Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 46.1 mi, 108° E · 3,956 acres
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 69.5 mi, 171° S · 21k acres
Davy Crockett National Forest (National Forest) — 73.6 mi, 064° NE · 161k acres

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