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2016 Map of Crystal City

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Crystal City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Crystal City serves as the hub of this South Texas landscape, defined by a dense grid of streets and key community landmarks like Edgewood Cem and Juarez Cem. The surrounding terrain is a complex hydrologic network where the Nueces River winds southward, flanked by numerous oxbows and seasonal water bodies including Duck Lake and the expansive Espantosa Lake to the south. Just north of the main settlement, the smaller community of Amaya sits along the Old Uvalde Hwy.

The map reveals a transition from the structured urban blocks of the city to a sprawling rural landscape dominated by ranching and irrigation, evidenced by named features like Taylor Curtis Ranch and the Boynton Reservoir. A network of farm-to-market roads and ranch roads, such as FM 3292 and Ranch Rd 1658, connects these outlying areas, while watercourses like Peña Cr and Alligator Slough illustrate the natural drainage patterns of the Zavala and Dimmit County borderlands.