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Sylvester Texas Map

Explore Sylvester, 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.

Interactive Map of Sylvester, Texas

How to Use This Sylvester, Texas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Sylvester, 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 Sylvester.

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	Sylvester
State	Texas (TX)
County	Fisher County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.720944
Longitude	-100.254271
Population	52
Density	22.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	79560
Area Code	806
County Seat	Roby
School District	Roby Consolidated Independent School District

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About Sylvester, Texas

Sylvester is a locality in Fisher County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 52. The population density is 22.7 people per km². Sylvester is located at 32.7209°N, 100.2543°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 79560.

Sylvester occupies a quiet expanse of the Texas plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut under an enormous, unblinking sky. It lies 19.4 miles north-northeast of Sweetwater, TX (from Sweetwater, TX: bearing 27°T), and is situated 13.5 miles south-southwest of Hamlin. Plum Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth nearby, its banks fringed by hardy scrub and grasses that silver in the heat. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Flat Top Mountain rises like a muted suggestion against the dusk, while the air carries the dry, honest scent of sun-baked dust and cured stalks. At twilight, the light turns a bruised gold, casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor the landscape against the shifting winds of the open country.

Agriculture defines the pulse of Sylvester, where the rhythm of the seasons is measured in the planting and harvest of cotton and grain. The land bears the quiet weight of generations who carved a living from the soil, their legacy etched into the fence lines and the weathered silos that punctuate the plains. Life here moves with the steady, patient deliberation of a place deeply connected to the earth, far removed from the frantic pace of the urban centers. While the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (W.T. Martin Ranch) sits sixteen miles away, the surrounding territory remains a testament to the resilience of the inland prairie, a place where the stillness is not an absence of sound, but a language of its own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Woods Chapel Cemetery (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 050° NE
Adair-Steadman Site (Monument) — 6.7 mi, 113° SE
Organization of Fisher County (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 283° W
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch (W.T. Martin Ranch) (Park) — 16.2 mi, 263° W
Newman Park (Local Park) — 18.5 mi, 209° SW
Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 19.1 mi, 207° SW
Lake Sweetwater Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 19.4 mi, 188° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 29.9 mi, 059° NE
Cowboy Country Museum (Museum) — 30.5 mi, 059° NE
Oriana Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 32.8 mi, 342° N
Sea Bee Park (Local Recreation) — 33.6 mi, 112° E
Fort Phantom Hill (Attraction) — 33.9 mi, 099° E
Myers Memorial Arena (Stadium) — 34.0 mi, 119° SE
Morgan Jones Planetarium (Museum) — 34.1 mi, 122° SE
Petrified Tree (Attraction) — 34.6 mi, 119° SE
Behrens Auditorium (Theatre) — 34.7 mi, 119° SE
Van Ellis Theatre (Theatre) — 34.7 mi, 119° SE
Good Night Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 35.5 mi, 121° SE
Elmer Gray Stadium (Stadium) — 36.0 mi, 118° SE
Women for Abilene Christian University Museum (Museum) — 36.2 mi, 119° SE
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 38.2 mi, 149° SE
CCC stonework (Historic Ruins) — 40.0 mi, 147° SE
Maddin Prairie (Park) — 41.8 mi, 228° SW
Heart of West Texas Museum (Museum) — 42.2 mi, 237° SW
Lake Colorado City State Park (State Park) — 47.0 mi, 236° SW
Fort Chadbourne (Historic Castle / Fort) — 47.3 mi, 180° S
Lake Alan Henry Wildlife Habitat Area (Local Conservation Area) — 49.8 mi, 297° NW
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 66.6 mi, 326° NW · 14k acres

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