Tap the map or drag the pin to place your guess.Edwards Plateau & Balcones Escarpment, central Texas
Hill Country Towns Map
Locate & pin 36 towns across the Edwards Plateau
Tap the map or drag the pin to place your guess.Edwards Plateau & Balcones Escarpment, central Texas
This is an interactive Texas Hill Country map for learning where the region's towns actually sit. A card names one of 36 Hill Country towns and you place a pin where it belongs — the closer you land, the more points you earn, and every answer reveals a short local fact. There are three ways to play: Locate (pin the named town), Name It (identify the town marked on the map), and Study (browse the fully labeled map). You can flip between the hand-drawn map and a real street map at any time. It's free, with no signup.
The map covers 36 towns in three tiers, from busy county seats to crossroads you could miss between songs on the radio.
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The Texas Hill Country is the rolling limestone country of central Texas, rising along the Balcones Escarpment just west of Austin and north of San Antonio and spreading across the eastern Edwards Plateau. Exact boundaries vary by definition, but its heart takes in Gillespie, Kerr, Kendall, Blanco, Bandera, Burnet, Llano, Comal, Hays, Mason, Kimble, Real, and Uvalde counties, threaded by the Guadalupe, Pedernales, Llano, Blanco, Medina, Sabinal, and Frio rivers. For the full boundary story, see where the Texas Hill Country is.
Fredericksburg, Kerrville, Boerne, Bandera, Wimberley, New Braunfels, and San Marcos are the best known, alongside dozens of smaller communities like Luckenbach, Comfort, and Utopia — the full list of 36 towns on this map is above.
In central Texas, immediately west of Austin and north and northwest of San Antonio, covering the eastern part of the Edwards Plateau.
At the Balcones Escarpment, the limestone rise that runs roughly along I-35 — San Marcos and New Braunfels sit right on its edge, and the hills climb west from there.
About ten miles southeast of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, on Ranch Road 1376 south of US 290.
On the Guadalupe River along I-10, about 60 miles northwest of San Antonio, in the west-central Hill Country.
On the Hill Country's eastern edge, about 30 miles northeast of San Antonio along I-35, where the Guadalupe River comes out of the hills.
Yes — a tiny unincorporated Gillespie County community (population famously given as three) with a working dance hall and post-office-turned-bar, made famous by the 1977 Waylon Jennings song.
A broad limestone plateau across central and west-central Texas. Its dissected eastern and southern edges — carved by spring-fed rivers into hills and canyons — form the Hill Country, ending at the Balcones Escarpment.