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Boys Ranch Florida Map

Explore Boys Ranch, 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.

Interactive Map of Boys Ranch, Florida

How to Use This Boys Ranch, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Boys Ranch, 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 Boys Ranch.

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.

CityBoys Ranch
StateFlorida (FL)
CountySuwannee County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude30.414704
Longitude-83.013733
Population280
Density8.0 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Codes32060, 33440
Area Code850, 954, 754
County SeatLive Oak

About Boys Ranch, Florida

Boys Ranch is a locality in Suwannee County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Boys Ranch is located at 30.4147°N, 83.0137°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 32060, 33440.

Boys Ranch spreads across a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of inland Florida, where the earth holds a deep, dampened heat that softens the edges of the horizon. It lies 27.2 miles northwest of Lake City, FL (from Lake City, FL: bearing 305°T), and is situated 8.5 miles north-northwest of Live Oak. Guinea Creek carves a dark, winding path through the vegetation nearby, its slow-moving current serving as the primary artery for the surrounding low-lying terrain. To the west, the subtle rise of Jim Mike Hill interrupts the flatness of the scrub, while the expansive, grassy expanse of Horse Prairie stretches out like a shallow basin. The air here thickens with a subtropical weight, especially as the late afternoon light turns a bruised, heavy gold, casting long shadows across the palmetto and pine. Only a mile away, the Holton Creek Conservation Area preserves the wilder character of the region, its dense thickets providing a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the sudden, sharp rustle of undergrowth or the distant, rhythmic hum of insects.

Boys Ranch carries the weight of a history rooted in the necessity of land management and the seasonal cycles of the interior. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the soil and the stewardship of the surrounding acreage, favoring a pace that resists the frantic pace of the urban centers further south. While the town remains quiet, the presence of Tiger Lake thirteen miles away offers a point of orientation for those who navigate the inland interior, far removed from the influences of the coast. Life in Boys Ranch moves with a deliberate, singular intensity, marked by the frequent, sudden storms that wash over the plains and leave the atmosphere smelling of wet earth and pine needles. It is a place where the work of the day is measured not by clocks, but by the steady, unrelenting growth of the forest and the slow retreat of the sun behind the distant, shadowed ridge of the landscape.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Holton Creek Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 349° N
  • Fort Union Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 1.0 mi, 090° E
  • Suwannee River State Park (State Park) — 1.7 mi, 308° NW
  • Suwannee Ridge Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 333° NW
  • Osceola National Forest (National Forest) — 4.2 mi, 298° NW · 160k acres
  • Hamilton County Recreation Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.1 mi, 029° NE
  • Twin Rivers State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 9.7 mi, 263° W
  • Old Marble Stage (Theatre) — 16.0 mi, 111° E
  • Big Shoals State Park (State Park) — 16.9 mi, 108° E
  • Lake City Weather dot Com (Attraction) — 22.9 mi, 143° SE
  • Pinhook Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 23.6 mi, 077° E · 96k acres
  • Treasures of Madison County Museum (Museum) — 24.1 mi, 279° W
  • The House of Seven Gables (Historic Ruins) — 26.8 mi, 201° S
  • Bonzai Pipelines (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 319° NW
  • Wahee Cyclone (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 319° NW
  • Kalani Blsaters (Attraction) — 27.8 mi, 319° NW
  • All-Star Amphitheater (Theatre) — 27.9 mi, 319° NW
  • Big Gum Swamp Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 31.8 mi, 102° E · 14k acres
  • Shipwreck (Historic Ruins) — 32.2 mi, 171° S
  • In Memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Monument) — 32.4 mi, 331° NW
  • Early Life (Monument) — 32.4 mi, 331° NW
  • College Education and Spiritual Growth (Monument) — 32.4 mi, 331° NW
  • Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit (Public Artwork) — 32.8 mi, 331° NW
  • Wild Magnolia Stuido (Arts Centre) — 32.9 mi, 331° NW
  • Curate Collective (Arts Centre) — 32.9 mi, 331° NW
  • Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.5 mi, 064° NE · 815k acres
  • Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 35.1 mi, 069° E · 350k acres
  • Eddy Lookout Tower (Viewpoint) — 40.9 mi, 077° E
  • Santa Fe Teaching Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 61.2 mi, 146° SE
  • Redemptive Love Farm (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 62.6 mi, 282° W

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About This Boys Ranch Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Boys Ranch, Florida. Coordinates: 30.414704, -83.013733. 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 Boys Ranch includes the ZIP code (32060, 33440), telephone area code (850, 954, 754), county seat of Suwannee County (Live Oak), and school district assignment.

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.