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Votaw Texas Map

Explore Votaw, 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 Votaw, Texas

How to Use This Votaw, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	30.435485
Longitude	-94.673257
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	77376
Area Code	713, 832
County Seat	Kountze

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About Votaw, Texas

Votaw is a locality in Hardin County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Votaw is located at 30.4355°N, 94.6733°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 77376.

Votaw emerges from the dense, humid embrace of the East Texas timberlands, where the landscape is defined by the steady, unobserved passage of Beaver Creek. It lies 30.6 miles west-northwest of Lumberton, TX (from Lumberton, TX: bearing 293°T), and is situated 19.4 miles east-northeast of Tarkington Prairie. The terrain here is low and soft, a tapestry of sandy loam and pine needle duff that absorbs the heavy rains of the season with a quiet, sponge-like efficiency. To the north, the elevation rises almost imperceptibly toward the distant silhouette of Davis Hill, while the pervasive greenery of the Big Thicket National Preserve encroaches upon the edges of the settlement, reminding the observer that nature here is not a backdrop, but a persistent neighbor. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thin, slanted shafts, illuminating the quiet industry of insects and the slow, deliberate growth of hardwoods that have reclaimed much of the earth.

Votaw retains the skeletal structure of a place born from the timber boom, its history written in the quiet decay of old mills and the persistence of families who have worked this land for generations. The economy remains tethered to the soil and the forest, a rhythm dictated by the demands of agriculture and the maintenance of the woods, far removed from the clamor of industrial centers. Life moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, punctuated by the occasional traveler seeking the solitude of the Big Thicket - Beaver Slide Trail or the reflective silence of Old River Lake. There is a distinct, heavy stillness in the late afternoon air here, a feeling that the land is holding its breath as the light turns copper and the shadows of the pines stretch long and thin across the scrub, asserting a permanence that ignores the haste of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Big Thicket National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 313° NW · 109k acres
Concord Baptist Church (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 257° W
Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.5 mi, 220° SW · 58k acres
Site of the Town of Grand Cane (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 219° SW
Davis Hill State Park (State Park) — 10.8 mi, 222° SW
Lance Rosier (Monument) — 13.7 mi, 140° SE
John Henry Kirby Memorial State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 17.6 mi, 058° NE
Wildwood Heritage Society Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 103° E
Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation Museum (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 337° NW
Turkey Creek Forest Legacy Project (State Resource Management Area) — 21.3 mi, 074° E
Sam Houston National Forest (National Forest) — 21.7 mi, 273° W · 163k acres
Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 22.5 mi, 063° NE
Livingston Museum (Museum) — 24.6 mi, 320° NW
Heritage Village Museum (Museum) — 26.9 mi, 031° NE
Village Creek State Park (State Park) — 31.6 mi, 113° SE
Performance Stage (Attraction) — 35.4 mi, 243° SW
Discovery Junction (Attraction) — 35.4 mi, 243° SW
Axe Throwing/Archery (Attraction) — 35.4 mi, 243° SW
Zip Lines (Attraction) — 35.4 mi, 242° SW
Roman Forest (Public Artwork) — 36.4 mi, 240° SW
John Jay French Historic House Museum (Museum) — 38.8 mi, 125° SE
Purple Stadium (Stadium) — 40.9 mi, 127° SE
Gator Country Wildlife Adventure Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 42.3 mi, 146° SE
Angelina National Forest (National Forest) — 43.8 mi, 022° N · 154k acres
Upland Island Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 44.2 mi, 022° N · 13k acres
Winnie-Stowell Horse Arena (Stadium) — 46.5 mi, 158° S
Regal Benders Landing Cinema (IMAX, ScreenX, 4DX, RPX & VIP) (Cinema) — 47.2 mi, 243° SW
J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area (Marine Protected Area) — 50.8 mi, 135° SE
Mcfaddin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 54.0 mi, 148° SE · 178k acres
Little Lake Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 60.8 mi, 272° W · 3,956 acres

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