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Telephone Texas Map

Explore Telephone, 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 Telephone, Texas

How to Use This Telephone, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	33.781211
Longitude	-96.018032
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	75488
Area Code	972, 469
County Seat	Bonham

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About Telephone, Texas

Telephone is a locality in Fannin County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Telephone is located at 33.7812°N, 96.0180°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 75488.

Telephone holds a quiet corner of the North Texas landscape where the horizon stretches wide across open plains and dense, scrubby woodlands. It lies 16.8 miles north-northeast of Bonham, TX (from Bonham, TX: bearing 33°T), and is situated 29.8 miles east of Denison. The earth here possesses a reddish hue, crumbling easily under the heat of a persistent sun that bleaches the tall grasses of the Caddo National Grassland into shades of pale straw. Only a mile away, the meandering course of Mud Branch carves a thin, shaded ribbon through the terrain, its banks lined with willow and hackberry trees that offer a cool respite from the heat. Three miles to the north, the still surface of Coffee Mill Lake catches the afternoon light, reflecting the vast, unbroken sky in a mirror of deep, silty blue.

Telephone traces its origins to the practical necessities of a frontier society, earning its peculiar moniker from an early local attempt to secure a telephone exchange for the benefit of scattered homesteaders. Life in Telephone remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, defined by the slow, deliberate pace of agriculture and the maintenance of livestock amidst the surrounding Caddo National Grassland. While the bustle of larger centers exists far beyond the reach of these quiet roads, the residents find continuity in the steady cycles of the season and the isolation of the rolling prairie. Occasionally, a traveler might catch sight of the distant, rising elevation of Popes Point as they navigate the rural lanes, a reminder that the land shifts in subtle, ancient ways toward the distant silence of Stillhouse Hollow.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Caddo National Grassland (National Grassland) — 1.6 mi, 172° S · 18k acres
Caddo National Grassland-Bois D'arc (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 172° S
Joseph Sowell (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 253° W
Lake Bonham Recreation Park (Local Park) — 11.5 mi, 216° SW
Site of Smith Plantation (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 256° W
Erwin Evans Smith (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 155° SE
Fort Inglish Village (Museum) — 17.1 mi, 215° SW
Bonham State Park (State Park) — 17.5 mi, 204° SW
Pat Mayse Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.6 mi, 084° E
Pat Mayse Lake (Recreation Area) — 20.3 mi, 085° E
Gambill Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 21.7 mi, 105° E
Flying Tigers Museum (Museum) — 22.8 mi, 119° SE
Lake Crook (Local Conservation Area) — 24.1 mi, 101° E
Valley of the Caddo Museum and Cultural Center (Museum) — 27.2 mi, 108° E
Lamar County Historical Museum (Museum) — 27.3 mi, 108° E
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Tx (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.7 mi, 117° SE · 1,438 acres
Red River Railroad Museum (Museum) — 29.8 mi, 267° W
Eiffel Tower (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 109° E
Skydive Spaceland Dallas (Attraction) — 30.9 mi, 222° SW
Buttonbush Scenic Point (Viewpoint) — 33.7 mi, 274° W
Nation Theater (Theatre) — 34.6 mi, 255° W
Oklahoma Awesome Adventures (Attraction) — 34.8 mi, 063° NE
Hugo Lake State Park (State Park) — 35.5 mi, 061° NE
Top Fun Ranch (Attraction) — 40.6 mi, 221° SW
Waterfowl Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 41.2 mi, 052° NE
Kingston Auditorium (Theatre) — 42.7 mi, 291° W
Deer Statue (Public Artwork) — 46.3 mi, 187° S
Ouachita National Forest (National Forest) — 66.9 mi, 067° NE · 1.8M acres
Chickasaw National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 69.7 mi, 309° NW · 15k acres
Little River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 70.2 mi, 081° E · 28k acres

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