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Wickett Texas Map

Explore Wickett, 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 Wickett, Texas

How to Use This Wickett, Texas Map

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

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

Latitude	31.570133
Longitude	-103.00099
Population	422
Density	231.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	79788
Area Code	806
County Seat	Monahans
School District	Monahans-Wickett-Pyote Independent School District

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About Wickett, Texas

Wickett is a locality in Ward County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 422. The population density is 231.1 people per km². Wickett is located at 31.5701°N, 103.0010°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Wickett is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 79788.

Wickett emerges from the vast, arid expanse of the Permian Basin as a testament to the endurance of those who work the earth’s deep, pressurized reserves. It lies 35.0 miles west-southwest of West Odessa, TX (from West Odessa, TX: bearing 238°T), and is situated 6.6 miles west-southwest of Monahans. The horizon around Wickett stretches wide and flat, an unforgiving landscape where the sun bleaches the scrub brush to a pale, brittle tan and the wind carries the dry scent of caliche and mesquite. To the west, the subtle rise of Pyote Flats interrupts the level plains, while the distance toward the horizon is marked only by the silhouette of distant, nameless elevations that shimmer in the midday heat. The light here possesses a singular, piercing quality, casting long, sharp shadows across the cracked soil that seem to sharpen the edges of every pump jack and rusted storage tank dotting the scrubland.

Oil has long defined the pulse of the local economy, drawing a steady, resolute population to this place where the Pecos River flows some thirteen miles away, providing a thin, vital ribbon of water through the parched desert. Life in Wickett is measured by the rhythmic cadence of the rigs and the quiet persistence of residents who maintain their homes against the encroaching dust and the intensity of the summer glare. While local diversions are modest, residents might find a moment of stillness at the Ward County Golf Course or observe the seasonal stillness near Monument Pond, six miles distant. The character of the locale is forged by this industrial necessity, a place where the history of extraction is written in the steel infrastructure that stands in stark, functional relief against the immense, open sky of the high desert.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ward County Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 5.8 mi, 062° NE
Ward County Aquatic Park (Local Park) — 6.1 mi, 066° NE
Pearson Park (Local Park) — 6.2 mi, 081° E
Christ The King Catholic Church Sands Art Center (Monument) — 6.5 mi, 070° E
Monahan's Well (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 075° E
Willow Springs (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 351° N
Rattlesnake Bomber Base Museum (Museum) — 7.7 mi, 256° W
Monahans Sandhills State Park (State Park) — 10.2 mi, 062° NE
Winkler County Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 21.5 mi, 326° NW
Southeast corner of New Mexico (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 353° N
Buck Jackson Rodeo Arena (Attraction) — 30.6 mi, 249° W
West of the Pecos Museum (Museum) — 30.8 mi, 251° W
The Jackrabbit (Public Artwork) — 41.6 mi, 062° NE
Globe Theatre of the Great Southwest (Theatre) — 41.6 mi, 061° NE
Ector Theatre (Theatre) — 41.9 mi, 062° NE
Historic Fort Stockton (Historic Castle / Fort) — 47.7 mi, 171° S
Mendoza Trail Museum (Museum) — 49.2 mi, 109° E
Pliska Aircraft Museum (Museum) — 51.3 mi, 072° E
Big Sky Drive-In Theatre (Cinema) — 56.5 mi, 061° NE
Sandia Wetlands (Nature Reserve) — 57.9 mi, 226° SW
Balmorhea State Park (State Park) — 62.1 mi, 226° SW
Rankin Museum (Museum) — 63.5 mi, 105° E
Dub Day Arena (Stadium) — 66.4 mi, 111° E
Pecos River\canyons Complex Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 67.5 mi, 308° NW
Hobbs Pbr 19 (Historic Ruins) — 67.7 mi, 328° NW
Pecos River\canyons Complex Research Natural Area Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 70.3 mi, 306° NW
Davis Mountains Preserve (Conservation Area) — 78.4 mi, 229° SW

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