Tunis Texas Map

About Tunis, Texas

Tunis is a locality in Burleson County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 90. The population density is 132.1 people per km². Tunis is located at 30.5449°N, 96.5272°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 77836.

Tunis sprawls across the sun-baked plains where the Old River carves a slow, muddy path through the silty earth. It lies 12.8 miles west-southwest of College Station, TX (from College Station, TX: bearing 243°T), and is situated 9.9 miles east of Caldwell. The landscape here favors the long shadow, stretching across flat fields where the horizon remains unbroken save for the distant, hazy silhouette of Mockingbird Hill. During the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised gold, catching the dust kicked up by passing trucks and illuminating the sparse, hardy scrub that clings to the riverbank. Five miles to the north, the Texas A&M University Aquaculture Research Teaching Facility maintains its quiet, scientific vigilance over the water, a stark contrast to the wild, tangled thickets that define the immediate perimeter of the Old River as it winds past the edge of the grid.

Tunis grew from the necessity of the soil, anchored by a regional economy that still hums with the steady, mechanical pulse of agricultural labor and local trade. Farmers here look toward Sanders Lake when the rains fail, understanding that the water levels dictate the temperament of the coming season. The rhythm of daily life is measured not by the clock, but by the slow rotation of crops and the occasional stillness that settles over the main thoroughfares after the sun dips below the western plains. There is a quiet, enduring gravity to the place, a persistence found in the weathered storefronts and the way residents speak of the land as if it were a stubborn but familiar neighbor, neither welcoming nor hostile, simply existing as the foundation upon which their quiet histories are written.

About This Tunis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tunis, Texas. Coordinates: 30.544925, -96.52719. 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 Tunis includes the ZIP code (77836), telephone area code (409), county seat of Burleson County (Caldwell), and school district assignment (Snook 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.