Explore Stowell, 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 Stowell, 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 Stowell.
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 | Stowell |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Chambers County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 29.77996 |
| Longitude | -94.368614 |
| Population | 1,743 |
| Density | 67.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 77665, 77661 |
| Area Code | 281 |
| County Seat | Anahuac |
| School District | East Chambers Independent School District |
Stowell anchors itself upon a broad, flat expanse of prairie, where the horizon stretches out in an unbroken line that seems to hold the sky aloft. It lies 26.5 miles southwest of Beaumont, TX (from Beaumont, TX: bearing 220°T), and is situated 2.1 miles south of Winnie. The earth here is defined by its subtle, low-lying character, occasionally punctuated by the quiet, silt-heavy presence of Spindletop Bayou as it meanders through the tall grasses just a mile away. Gregory Park offers a modest, unadorned space for the land to breathe, providing a patch of open ground where the wind carries the scent of sun-warmed soil and dry stalks. To the west, the distant profile of Big Hill rises against the hazy light of late afternoon, a reminder of the geologic shifts that once shaped this quiet stretch of the interior.
Stowell carries the weight of a working landscape, where the industry of the soil and the rhythm of the oil patch define the daily passage of time. The economy remains tethered to the land’s quiet productivity, reflecting a history of endurance and the pragmatic labor of those who have long managed these fields. Life here moves with the measured pace of the seasons, far removed from the clamor of larger hubs, finding its own cadence in the hum of machinery and the stillness of the afternoon. Even in the shadow of industrial machinery, the light at dusk settles over the fields with a soft, amber clarity, lending the local plains a transient beauty that feels entirely its own.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Stowell, Texas. Coordinates: 29.77996, -94.368614. 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 Stowell includes the ZIP code (77665, 77661), telephone area code (281), county seat of Chambers County (Anahuac), and school district assignment (East Chambers 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. |