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Big Lake, Texas Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Big Lake, Texas from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Big Lake building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Big Lake, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Big Lake artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Big Lake. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Big Lake brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Big Lake, Texas from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Big Lake map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks2
- Big Lake City Hall
- Glen Rest Cemetery
Streets and roads71
- East Second Street
- North State Highway 137
- East Twelfth Street
- North Mississippi Avenue
- North Utah Avenue
- North Ohio Avenue
- West First Street
- North Main Avenue
- East Lake Street
- Main Avenue
- East Seventh Street
- Virginia Circle
- South Main Avenue
- East Eleventh Street
- East Tenth Street
- Maryland Avenue
- South Railroad Street
- East Fifth Street
- Montana Avenue
- East Ninth Street
- North California Avenue
- Pose Lane
- East Third Street
- East First Street
- North Plaza Avenue
- East Sixth Street
- Scott Road
- East Eighth Street
- East Fourth Street
- North Pennsylvania Avenue
Show all 71 streets
- North Florida Avenue
- North Texas Avenue
- North Georgia Avenue
- Louisiana Avenue
- North Railroad Street
- South Plaza Avenue
- Josh Mitchell Avenue
- Hawaii
- Colorado
- Wolters Street
- Reagan Street
- South Texas Avenue
- South California Avenue
- North Virginia Avenue
- Sengleman Street
- East Russek Street
- South Reagan Street
- Connecticut Avenue
- Alaska
- North Caliche Street
- New York Avenue
- Vermont Avenue
- West Twelfth Street
- West Third Street
- Oak Drive
- Fifth Street
- West Second Street
- South Utah Avenue
- West Fourth Street
- West Eighth Street
- South Mississippi Avenue
- South Sherriff
- South Florida Avenue
- South Ohio Avenue
- West Sixth Street
- West Seventh Street
- Court House Square
- West Tenth Street
- Mesquite Lane
- South Montana Avenue
- South Virginia Avenue
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Big Lake, Texas
Big Lake is a city of 2,965 people and the county seat of Reagan County. Two families arrived in 1905: the Coates family claimed the west side of a broad, water-filled depression called Big Lake, and the Taylor family took land on its east side. The lake, two miles south of today's town, held the only fresh water anywhere from the Concho rivers west to Comanche Springs at Fort Stockton.
In 1911 T. H. Taylor sold 320 acres for a townsite and station to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, and the new town took the lake's name. Settlers got ready before the trains came. A boxcar served as the depot, a hotel served family-style meals, the Nairn family opened a grocery by the tracks and the Anderson family started a general store. The tracks reached Big Lake in 1912, bringing a post office, and by the fall of 1915 forty to fifty people lived here.
- Fifteen students and a phone lineBefore the railroad arrived, W. W. Coates and A. H. Garner strung a telephone line to Big Lake from Stiles, then the county seat. The first public school had fifteen students, who met in a little building that was later used as the Methodist parsonage. A stock pen went up beside the tracks to hold cattle waiting to be shipped.
- Ricker's University leaseIn 1919 Rupert Ricker began leasing 674 sections of University of Texas land. He couldn't pay for test wells, so Frank Pickrell and Haymon Krupp bought the prospect and formed the Texon Oil and Land Company. Carl G. Cromwell started drilling in 1921, about 14 miles west of Big Lake.
- The Santa Rita No. 1On the morning of May 28, 1923, the Santa Rita No. 1 gushed oil from 3,028 feet down. It opened the Big Lake field, the first major field in the Permian Basin, and by 1926 the field had 74 wells pumping 32,317 barrels a day.
- Boom town, then county seatThat summer landowners and out-of-town speculators made quick money selling oil leases. Several cafes went into business, along with a lumberyard and a hardware store, and the hotel added twelve rooms. Voters chose to incorporate on August 15, 1923. Two years later, in 1925, Big Lake took the county seat from Stiles, a ranching town founded in 1894 about 20 miles north.
- Two oil boomsBig Lake reached 1,500 people by 1927 and 2,000 the year after. The Great Depression cut it to 832 by 1931, and through the 1930s and 1940s the town lived on as a supply center for the oil fields. A second boom began on May 23, 1951, when the Spraberry Trend came into production, and the population climbed to 3,098 by 1966.
Keep exploring Texas
Big Lake is one of 2,049 Texas towns we've mapped. Every dot on the map is a print of its own.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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