Explore Snook, 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 Snook, 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 Snook.
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 | Snook |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Burleson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.488816 |
| Longitude | -96.46441 |
| Population | 506 |
| Density | 97.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 77878 |
| Area Code | 409 |
| County Seat | Caldwell |
| School District | Snook Independent School District |
Snook occupies a stretch of fertile, sun-drenched prairie where the horizon line is defined by the persistent, rhythmic swaying of native grasses and the occasional silhouette of an ancient post oak. It lies 12.3 miles southwest of College Station, TX (from College Station, TX: bearing 219°T), and is situated 14.0 miles south-southwest of Bryan. The landscape here is characterized by subtle, persistent undulations of earth that seem to breathe under the weight of an expansive, cloud-streaked sky. Lewis Creek winds through the nearby terrain, carving a modest, shaded path through the soil that offers a cool reprieve from the intense, golden light of late afternoon. Beyond the immediate fields, the elevation shifts ever so slightly toward the rise of Green Mountain, which anchors the distant view, while the proximity of Somerville Lake ensures that the air retains a faint, humid weight even when the rains are sparse. Within the quiet boundaries of Snook City Park, the land offers a grounded space where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the dry rustle of leaves and the distant, mechanical hum of regional agricultural life.
Snook maintains a character forged by the steady persistence of its Czech heritage, a legacy that lingers in the local customs and the enduring architectural vernacular of the surrounding farms. The economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, with the cycles of planting and harvest dictating the pulse of the day more effectively than any clock. History here is kept in the quiet maintenance of family homesteads and the shared memory of those who worked these fields long before the modern era smoothed the edges of the plains. Life moves with an unhurried, deliberate quality, focused on the maintenance of community ties and the quiet prosperity of the soil. As evening settles, the dimming light softens the hard lines of the horizon, casting the fields in a deep, melancholic violet that underscores the isolation and the profound, singular peace of the landscape.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Snook, Texas. Coordinates: 30.488816, -96.46441. 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 Snook includes the ZIP code (77878), telephone area code (409), county seat of Burleson County (Caldwell), and school district assignment (Snook 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. |