Waco Map

Description: This map shows neighborhoods, streets, roads, rivers, buildings, railways, railway stations, and parks in Waco (Texas).

Waco is a city and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is located along the Brazos River in central Texas, approximately 100 miles south of Dallas and 100 miles north of Austin.

The city was incorporated in 1856, though the area had been settled earlier, in 1849, near a historic Waco Indian village. The Waco Suspension Bridge, completed in 1870, was the first single-span suspension bridge in Texas and played a significant role in cattle drives crossing the Brazos River along the Chisholm Trail.

Waco is home to Baylor University, the world's largest Baptist university, which relocated to the city in 1886.

The soft drink Dr Pepper is widely credited to have been created in Waco in 1885 by pharmacist Charles Alderton at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store. The city hosts the Dr Pepper Museum, opened in 1991 in the original bottling plant building.

In 1993, a 51-day standoff between the U.S. federal agents and the Branch Davidian religious sect took place at a compound near Waco, ending on April 19 with a fire that killed 76 people, including sect leader David Koresh.

Main sights in Waco

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