Explore Baldwin, Florida, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Baldwin, Florida. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Florida or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Baldwin.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Baldwin |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Duval County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 30.302738 |
| Longitude | -81.975386 |
| Population | 1,396 |
| Density | 266.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 32234 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| County Seat | Jacksonville |
| School District | Duval County School District |
Baldwin occupies a level expanse of pine flatwoods and palmetto scrub where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and afternoon heat. It lies 12.5 miles northwest of Oakleaf Plantation, FL (from Oakleaf Plantation, FL: bearing 318°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east of Macclenny. The landscape stretches out in quiet, unremarkable lines, interrupted only by the occasional stand of slash pine and the thin, dark ribbons of drainage ditches that eventually feed the waters of Deep Creek. Light filters through the canopy in long, slanted bars during the late hours, casting shadows that lengthen across the flat terrain until the horizon blurs into a hazy, muted gray. Beyond the immediate reach of the Baldwin Middle/High School Athletic Fields, the land remains largely undisturbed, marked by the slow, steady encroachment of wild vegetation that thrives in the subtropical humidity.
Economic life in Baldwin remains tethered to the iron veins of the railroad, a legacy of its origin as a junction where the movement of freight dictates the town’s pulse. The rhythm of the days is measured by the distant, mournful call of whistles that break the stillness of the afternoon, reminding inhabitants of the commerce that once necessitated such a precise intersection of steel. History here is not found in grand monuments but in the utilitarian architecture and the way the local economy continues to pivot around the logistics of transit and regional distribution. While the deep shade of Jennings State Forest provides a distant, verdant boundary to the west, the daily existence of Baldwin is defined by the enduring intersection of these tracks, a point of convergence that has held steady while the rest of the world accelerates elsewhere.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Baldwin, Florida. Coordinates: 30.302738, -81.975386. 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 Baldwin includes the ZIP code (32234), telephone area code (850), county seat of Duval County (Jacksonville), and school district assignment (Duval County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |