Explore Big Pine Key, 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 Big Pine Key, 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 Big Pine Key.
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 | Big Pine Key |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Monroe County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 24.685137 |
| Longitude | -81.362518 |
| Population | 4,521 |
| Density | 171.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 33043 |
| Area Code | 305, 786 |
| County Seat | Key West |
| School District | Monroe County School District |
Big Pine Key emerges from the low-slung, porous limestone of the Florida shelf, a landscape where the boundary between solid earth and saltwater dissolves into a tangle of palmetto scrub and salt-tolerant pines. It lies 28.1 miles east-northeast of Key West, FL (from Key West, FL: bearing 74°T), and is situated 9.1 miles east of Cudjoe Key. The air here holds a heavy, subtropical weight, smelling faintly of brine and sun-baked needles as the light shifts through the afternoon, turning the horizon into a shimmer of heat and pale, bleached color. Within the protected expanse of the National Key Deer Refuge, the land remains quiet, defined by a rugged, unmanicured wildness that stretches toward the shimmering expanse of Pine Key Bight, a mile away. Across the water, the silhouette of Big Mangrove Key disrupts the flat horizon, standing as a dark, impenetrable sentry against the tides that rhythmically pulse through the shallow, sun-drenched flats.
History in Big Pine Key is written in the slow, deliberate movements of the endangered deer that navigate the limestone barrens, their presence a living link to an era before the heavy hand of development reached this far south. The local economy persists in a delicate tension between the quiet demands of environmental stewardship and the seasonal influx of those seeking the solitude of the archipelago. While Tarpon Creek flows ten miles away, the life of the inhabitants remains anchored to the immediate, intimate geography of the surrounding scrub and the tidal reaches that define the daily cycle of the tide. The pace of life here is dictated by the sun and the salt, a persistent, slow-moving current that favors the patient observer over the hurried traveler, allowing the unique, fragile character of the island to endure beneath the vast, cloud-streaked sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Big Pine Key, Florida. Coordinates: 24.685137, -81.362518. 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 Big Pine Key includes the ZIP code (33043), telephone area code (305, 786), county seat of Monroe County (Key West), and school district assignment (Monroe 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. |