Explore Wilson, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Wilson, 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 Wilson.
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 | Wilson |
| State | Texas (TX) |
| County | Falls County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.31934 |
| Longitude | -101.727499 |
| Population | 434 |
| Density | 259.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 76570, 76446, 75160, 79381 |
| Area Code | 214, 469, 806 |
| County Seat | Marlin |
| School District | Wilson Independent School District |
Wilson emerges from the flat, open horizon as a deliberate arrangement of earth and sky, where the land stretches out in long, quiet lines of cultivated soil. It lies 17.4 miles east-southeast of Temple, TX (from Temple, TX: bearing 108°T), and is situated 12.5 miles north-northwest of Cameron. The atmosphere carries a thin, dry clarity that sharpens the edges of the horizon, revealing the distant rise of Wilson Hill as a faint, muted silhouette against the expanse. To the east, the terrain dips into the subtle, shadowed depression of Dry Hollow, while the nearby banks of Little Pond Creek provide a thin, winding ribbon of riparian green that breaks the monochromatic stretch of the plains. Light here does not merely illuminate; it settles heavily upon the fields, turning the dust of the late afternoon into a pale, shifting gold that clings to the fences and the weathered siding of the older buildings.
Wilson remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons and the cycle of the harvest, its economy defined by the stubborn productivity of the surrounding acreage. The history of the place is marked by the quiet persistence of those who worked the soil, leaving behind a legacy that is felt in the steady, measured pace of the local grain elevators and the occasional hum of machinery drifting across the fields. Residents might venture toward the stillness of Panther Field for an afternoon of observation, or look toward the Soil Conservation Service Site 10 Reservoir when the summer heat demands the cooling presence of standing water. Life in Wilson moves with the slow, predictable gravity of agricultural time, where the identity of the locality is found not in grand monuments, but in the enduring texture of the dirt and the vast, unobstructed reach of the sky above.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wilson, Texas. Coordinates: 33.31934, -101.727499. 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 Wilson includes the ZIP code (76570, 76446, 75160), telephone area code (214, 469, 806), county seat of Falls County (Marlin), and school district assignment (Wilson Independent School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |