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Crescent Beach Florida Map

Explore Crescent Beach, 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 Crescent Beach, Florida

How to Use This Crescent Beach, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Crescent Beach, 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 Crescent Beach.

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	Crescent Beach
State	Florida (FL)
County	St. Johns County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	29.730332
Longitude	-81.241709
Population	844
Density	226.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	32080
Area Code	850
County Seat	St. Augustine
School District	St. Johns County School District

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About Crescent Beach, Florida

Crescent Beach is a locality in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 844. The population density is 226.6 people per km². Crescent Beach is located at 29.7303°N, 81.2417°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 32080.

Crescent Beach maintains a quiet, steady presence where the Matanzas River separates the mainland from the barrier dunes, defining the edge of the world with a line of shifting sand. It lies 9.4 miles south-southeast of Saint Augustine, FL (from Saint Augustine, FL: bearing 157°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south-southeast of St. Augustine. {navigation_sentence} The atmosphere here carries the weight of subtropical humidity, where the air feels heavy with the scent of salt and the persistent, damp memory of the sea. Within the borders of Crescent Beach Park, the dunes rise in pale, wind-sculpted ridges, their grasses shivering against the backdrop of an Atlantic horizon that glows with a bruised, metallic light during the late afternoon. Beyond the immediate shore, the landscape retreats into a dense tangle of palmetto scrub, a low-lying terrain that absorbs the golden, singular intensity of the southern sun.

Economic life in Crescent Beach flows with the tides, tethered to the seasonal migrations of visitors who seek the stillness of the coast. To the north, the proximity of Anastasia Island exerts a gravitational pull on local commerce, while the distant, calm waters of Fish Island Marina serve as a functional anchor for those who look toward the water for their livelihood. The history of this coast is written in the slow, relentless reclamation of the land by the weather, a process that colors the daily rhythm of the residents who watch the storms pass over the Matanzas River. Life here is measured by the tide charts and the flickering, sudden illumination of summer lightning, which defines the nights with a sharp, electric brilliance that leaves the quiet streets feeling momentarily exposed and profoundly singular.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — locality lies within
Fort Matanzas National Monument (National Monument) — 0.9 mi, 190° S · 272 acres
Matanzas State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 249° W
Faver-Dykes State Park (State Park) — 1.2 mi, 214° SW
Helen Mellon Schmidt Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 163° S
Moses Creek Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 320° NW
Crescent Beach Park (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 346° N
Pellicer Creek Aquatic Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 4.3 mi, 195° S
Pellicer Creek Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 194° S
Ripple Effects Ecotours (Attraction) — 4.5 mi, 159° S
Marsh View Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 170° S
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park (State Park) — 6.5 mi, 163° S
Classic Car Museum of St. Augustine (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 317° NW
Frank Celico Memorial (Monument) — 10.3 mi, 170° S
Let Freedom Ring Chimes Project (Public Artwork) — 10.7 mi, 338° N
Coast Guard Memorial (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 346° N
Dade Monument (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 339° N
Saint Augustine Art Association Gallery and Cultural Center (Gallery) — 11.9 mi, 339° N
Black Raven Pirate Ship (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 340° N
Acacia Tree Gallery (Gallery) — 11.9 mi, 339° N
Lightner Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 339° N
Georgia Nick Gallery (Gallery) — 11.9 mi, 339° N
Ancient City Tours (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 339° N
Ghost Tours of Saint Augustine (Attraction) — 12.0 mi, 339° N
City Repertory Theatre (Theatre) — 12.5 mi, 176° S
Menendez Settlement Field (Historic Ruins) — 12.9 mi, 340° N
Observation Platform (Viewpoint) — 14.0 mi, 346° N
Fort Mose (Historic Ruins) — 14.6 mi, 341° N
Flagler Beach Historical Museum (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 158° S
Ocala National Forest (National Forest) — 32.4 mi, 236° SW · 385k acres

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