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Tuscola Texas Map

Explore Tuscola, 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 Tuscola, Texas

How to Use This Tuscola, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	32.209578
Longitude	-99.796754
Population	850
Density	387.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	79562
Area Code	806
County Seat	Abilene
School District	Jim Ned Consolidated Independent School District

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About Tuscola, Texas

Tuscola is a locality in Taylor County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 850. The population density is 387.0 people per km². Tuscola is located at 32.2096°N, 99.7968°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tuscola is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79562.

Tuscola emerges from the sun-bleached plains of West Texas, a place defined by the quiet persistence of the Jim Ned Creek as it carves a shallow, verdant artery through the arid earth. It lies 16.9 miles south-southwest of Abilene, TX (from Abilene, TX: bearing 193°T), and is situated 11.6 miles southwest of Potosi. The landscape here is a wide, open expanse where the horizon stretches thin and pale, broken only by the occasional scrub oak or the distant, hazy silhouette of the Edwards Plateau far to the south. Three miles away, Ovalo Lake catches the high-noon glare, its surface a flat, unmoving mirror that holds the heat of the sky. The light in Tuscola possesses a particular clarity, a sharp, golden quality that bleaches the color from the dry grasses while deepening the indigo shadows cast by the fence posts.

Agriculture and the steady, rhythmic pulse of rural industry sustain Tuscola, grounding the lives of its residents in the cycles of the soil and the seasons. The proximity to Abilene State Park, with its winding Abilene State Park Trail, offers a sheltered respite of hardwoods and limestone bluffs just five miles away, providing a contrast to the flatter stretches near the basin of Brock Hollow. History here is written in the iron of old windmills and the weathered siding of barns that have watched the decades pass without fanfare. Life in Tuscola moves with an intentional, deliberate pace, where the sound of the wind through the mesquite carries more weight than the clamor of distant city life, and the evening air cools with a sudden, refreshing honesty.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jim Ned Creek (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 191° S
Cedar Gap Community (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 035° NE
Abilene State Park (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 292° W
Buffalo Gap Cemetery (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 320° NW
CCC Stonework (Historic Ruins) — 5.1 mi, 292° W
Ampitheater (Theatre) — 5.4 mi, 289° W
Lake Kirby Park (Local Recreation) — 12.0 mi, 020° N
Vaughn Camp Park (Local Park) — 12.9 mi, 011° N
Redbud Park (Local Recreation) — 13.7 mi, 008° N
Spirit Wind (Public Artwork) — 15.5 mi, 010° N
Kirby Park (Local Park) — 15.6 mi, 015° N
Paramount Theater (Theatre) — 17.1 mi, 012° N
Morgan Jones Planetarium (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 007° N
Women for Abilene Christian University Museum (Museum) — 18.4 mi, 016° N
Petrified Tree (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 011° N
Elmer Gray Stadium (Stadium) — 18.8 mi, 016° N
Myers Memorial Arena (Stadium) — 19.2 mi, 010° N
Z I Hale Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 209° SW
Callahan County Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 061° NE
Hords Creek Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 27.3 mi, 156° SE
Hords Creek Lake (Recreation Area) — 28.0 mi, 155° SE
Fort Chadbourne (Historic Castle / Fort) — 29.0 mi, 246° SW
Fort Phantom Hill (Attraction) — 30.7 mi, 013° N
Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 39.8 mi, 297° NW
The Old Jail Art Center (Arts Centre) — 44.9 mi, 033° NE
Lake Brownwood State Park (State Park) — 50.3 mi, 119° SE

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