Bagdad Florida Map

About Bagdad, Florida

Bagdad is a locality in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,467. The population density is 271.9 people per km². Bagdad is located at 30.5842°N, 87.0449°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 32530, 32583.

Bagdad rests upon a low-lying expanse where the humid, subtropical air clings to the skin like a damp silk veil. It lies 1.3 miles south-southwest of East Milton, FL (from East Milton, FL: bearing 206°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east of Pace. The landscape unfolds in a quiet cadence of palmetto scrub and dense woodland, marked by the slow, dark pulse of the Blackwater River as it winds toward the Gulf of Mexico. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, amber quality, catching the edges of the cypress trees and deepening the shadows that stretch across the earth toward the distant, unseen silhouette of the Gulf of Mexico. At the water’s edge, the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the rhythmic shift of the tide, a reminder that the sea is never far from the consciousness of those who dwell in the quiet corners of this terrain.

Bagdad carries the weight of a long industrial legacy, having once served as a bustling center for timber production that defined the economic life of the region. Today, the remnants of that era are preserved at the Bagdad Mill Site Park, where the ghosts of sawmills and shipping lanes linger in the quiet hum of the landscape. The proximity to the Ward Basin and the shifting tides of the Gulf of Mexico shaped the patterns of early commerce, drawing labor and life toward the water’s edge. Even now, the rhythm of Bagdad remains tethered to the river, a place where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable movement of the currents flowing toward the coast.

About This Bagdad Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bagdad, Florida. Coordinates: 30.584172, -87.044892. 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 Bagdad includes the ZIP code (32530, 32583), telephone area code (850), county seat of Santa Rosa County (Milton), and school district assignment (Santa Rosa County School District).

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.