Cedar Key Florida Map

About Cedar Key, Florida

Cedar Key is a locality in Levy County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 687. The population density is 263.1 people per km². Cedar Key is located at 29.1503°N, 83.0374°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Cedar Key is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 32625.

Cedar Key exhales a damp, salt-heavy breath as the tide retreats from the flat, labyrinthine edges of the Gulf of Mexico. It lies 35.5 miles west-northwest of Citrus Springs, FL (from Citrus Springs, FL: bearing 286°T), and is situated 35.0 miles west of Rainbow Springs. This landscape is defined by the low-slung silhouette of Way Key, where the land seems less like solid ground and more like a tenuous agreement between the silt and the rising sea. Beyond the immediate harbor, the horizon is flattened by the vast, shimmering expanse of the Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve, a submerged wilderness that dictates the slow, deliberate pace of the local currents. To the north, the elevation rises slightly toward the modest rise of Hodgson Hill, standing as a quiet sentinel over the brackish, tannin-stained waters of Goose Creek that feed into the basin. The light here at dusk possesses a bruised, pearlescent quality, turning the water into hammered pewter and casting long, skeletal shadows across the weathered docks.

Cedar Key carries the weight of a long, maritime endurance, having evolved from a bustling nineteenth-century terminus for the railroad into a sanctuary for those who favor the quiet labor of the sea. The local economy persists in the rhythmic harvest of clams and the modest trade of the working waterfront, far removed from the frantic pace of the state’s more manicured coastlines. History remains embedded in the salt-crusted pilings and the fading paint of old structures, remnants of an era when timber and cedar pencils moved through these channels toward distant markets. Life here is measured by the wind and the migration of birds, a stark contrast to the distant, inland pulse of places like Alligator Lake. Despite the encroaching humidity and the occasional violent bloom of a summer storm, the inhabitants maintain a stoic, unadorned existence that respects the thin margin between the civilized porch and the wild, grasping tangle of the mangroves.

About This Cedar Key Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cedar Key, Florida. Coordinates: 29.150265, -83.037362. 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 Cedar Key includes the ZIP code (32625), telephone area code (904), county seat of Levy County (Bronson), and school district assignment (Levy 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.