Explore Sweet Home, 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 Sweet Home, 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 Sweet Home.
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 | Sweet Home |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Guadalupe County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.257436 |
| Longitude | -96.821368 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 78155, 78942, 77987 |
| Area Code | 830, 409 |
| County Seat | Seguin |
Sweet Home occupies a quiet expanse of the coastal plains, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky holds a heavy, expansive clarity that defines the rhythm of the day. It lies 8.9 miles south-southwest of Seguin, TX (from Seguin, TX: bearing 210°T), and is situated 9.3 miles south of McQueeney. Cottonwood Creek marks the low-lying edges of the property, providing a thin, shaded ribbon of water that sustains the local flora as it winds through the brush. The terrain here lacks the dramatic rise of the distant Edwards Plateau, favoring instead a subtle, unforced flatness that allows the heat to shimmer off the earth by mid-afternoon. Far to the west, the land eventually lifts into the rolling character of the interior, but here the ground remains level, defined by the steady, unhurried growth of native grasses and the occasional silhouette of a fence line cutting against the pale, dusty light of dusk.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Sweet Home, a legacy tied to the long-standing labor of families who have worked this soil for generations. The economic life of the region is tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest, mirroring the stoic, practical nature of the folks who live among the fields. While residents might travel seven miles to enjoy the open space of Governor Ireland Park or look toward the distant, shimmering surface of Soil Conservation Service Site 3 Reservoir for a change of scenery, their focus stays fixed on the immediate demands of the land. The character of the place is not found in grand architecture or bustling thoroughfares, but in the deliberate pace of life and the way the evening air settles over the flat, quiet fields, cooling the day’s labor into a deep, resonant silence.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sweet Home, Texas. Coordinates: 30.257436, -96.821368. 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 Sweet Home includes the ZIP code (78155, 78942, 77987), telephone area code (830, 409), county seat of Guadalupe County (Seguin), 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. |