Explore Silver, 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 Silver, 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 Silver.
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 | Silver |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Coke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.070966 |
| Longitude | -100.682606 |
| Population | 180 |
| Density | 2.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 76945, 76949 |
| Area Code | 325 |
| County Seat | Robert Lee |
Silver occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon stretches flat and unrelenting under a sky of pale, washed-out blue. It lies 32.0 miles south-southwest of Sweetwater, TX (from Sweetwater, TX: bearing 210°T), and is situated 34.9 miles north-northwest of Grape Creek. Sand Creek traces a shallow, intermittent line through the parched earth nearby, its banks often dry and choked with mesquite that struggles against the persistent, arid heat. During the rare, heavy rains, the land seems to hold its breath as water collects in the low-lying depression of Cemetery Draw, a reminder of the quiet, geologic patience required to exist in this rugged stretch of the plains. Far to the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Edwards Plateau suggests a world of elevation and shadow, though here the terrain remains stubbornly level, defined by the stark clarity of high-noon light that bleaches the color from the prairie grasses.
Silver emerged from the hardscrabble realities of the oil patch, a legacy that continues to dictate the pulse of the local economy and the weathered character of its modest structures. The rhythmic nodding of pump jacks marks the passage of time more reliably than any clock, serving as the primary industry that keeps the region tethered to the global energy grid. Life here is defined by a deliberate, quiet endurance, far removed from the frantic pace of larger hubs, where the occasional traveler might stop to gaze toward the horizon or find a moment of stillness at the nearby Rough Creek Park. Even the proximity of Shinney Tank provides little more than a modest reprieve from the dryness, yet there is a distinct, austere beauty in the way the twilight deepens the gray tones of the scrub, lending a sudden, fleeting grace to the utilitarian landscape of Silver.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Silver, Texas. Coordinates: 32.070966, -100.682606. 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 Silver includes the ZIP code (76945, 76949), telephone area code (325), county seat of Coke County (Robert Lee), and school district assignment.
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. |