Tira Texas Map

About Tira, Texas

Tira is a locality in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 319. The population density is 86.9 people per km². Tira is located at 33.3291°N, 95.5361°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tira is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 75482.

Tira occupies a quiet corner of the northeast Texas landscape, where the horizon stretches wide across flat, sun-bleached pastures and thickets of post oak. It lies 13.1 miles north of Sulphur Springs, TX (from Sulphur Springs, TX: bearing 7°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east-southeast of Cooper. The ground here is heavy with clay, absorbing the summer heat until the air shimmers above the dirt roads, while Vaden Creek meanders a mere mile away, carving a modest path through the dense, riparian brush. To the west, Harpers Hill rises as a singular, gentle swell in the topography, providing a faint disruption to the otherwise horizontal reach of the prairie. The light at dusk settles heavy and amber over the fields, turning the dry grasses to the color of old straw and casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor the land against the vast, open sky.

Tira maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of agriculture and the slow passage of seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s urban centers. The local economy remains tethered to the soil, with cattle grazing on fenced acreage and the legacy of early settlers still visible in the scattered, weathered outbuildings that mark the edges of family-owned plots. Residents find their recreation in the nearby Cooper Recreation Area, a place where the stillness of the woods offers a respite from the mechanical hum of modern life. While the convenience of Lake Sulphur Springs remains ten miles distant, the people of Tira prefer the solitude of their own acres, where the evening quiet is broken only by the distant lowing of livestock or the soft rustle of wind through the blackjack oaks.

About This Tira Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tira, Texas. Coordinates: 33.329101, -95.536066. 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 Tira includes the ZIP code (75482), telephone area code (972, 469), county seat of Hopkins County (Sulphur Springs), and school district assignment (North Hopkins Independent School District).

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.