Explore San Isidro, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for San Isidro, 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 San Isidro.
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 | San Isidro |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Starr County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 26.716723 |
| Longitude | -98.453905 |
| Population | 187 |
| Density | 23.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 78588 |
| Area Code | 830 |
| County Seat | Rio Grande City |
| School District | San Isidro Independent School District |
San Isidro occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse of the South Texas brush country where the horizon holds an unrelenting, level clarity. It lies 30.9 miles north-northwest of Alton, TX (from Alton, TX: bearing 344°T), and is situated 33.8 miles north-northwest of Edinburg. The landscape is defined by a dense mosaic of mesquite, prickly pear, and resilient scrub that seems to drink the heat from the sky, while the soil beneath is a fine, pale dust that shifts with the persistent regional winds. Ten miles from the nearest water at Vargas Creek, the terrain remains dry and austere, marked by the occasional jagged silhouettes of drought-hardy trees that cast short, sharp shadows under the midday sun. As the light begins to fail, the air takes on a bruised, violet hue, and the cooling ground releases the scent of scorched earth and dry grass, a quiet signal that the day’s work is nearing its end.
San Isidro remains anchored to a heritage of ranching and the slow, deliberate pace of life that persists far from the reach of sprawling urban centers. The economy here moves in rhythm with the seasons and the demands of the land, shaped by families who have kept cattle on these plains for generations. Life in San Isidro is quiet, defined by the low hum of distant engines on two-lane roads and the shared knowledge of those who navigate the brush daily. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of sound, but a heavy, tangible presence that commands respect, leaving the inhabitants to find their own meaning in the vast, open spaces that stretch toward the horizon in every direction.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of San Isidro, Texas. Coordinates: 26.716723, -98.453905. 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 San Isidro includes the ZIP code (78588), telephone area code (830), county seat of Starr County (Rio Grande City), and school district assignment (San Isidro 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |