Explore Crystal Lake, 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 Crystal Lake, 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 Crystal Lake.
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 | Crystal Lake |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 28.035979 |
| Longitude | -81.899636 |
| Population | 5,768 |
| Density | 872.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 33064, 32428, 33801 |
| Area Code | 850, 561 |
| County Seat | Chipley |
| School District | Polk County School District |
Crystal Lake emerges from the flat, pine-dotted expanses of the interior as a quiet gathering of earth and water, defined by the heavy, humid air that clings to the palmetto scrub. It lies 13.9 miles north of Lynn Haven, FL (from Lynn Haven, FL: bearing 350°T), and is situated 19.8 miles north of Panama City. The landscape here is defined by a subtle, porous geology, where the ground gives way to the deep, tea-colored silence of Botheration Creek three miles to the west, and the light at dusk softens the sharp edges of the scrub oaks into long, indigo shadows. Nearby, the presence of Compass Lake provides a singular, reflective anchor to the terrain, its surface holding the stillness of the afternoon while the distant, hazy silhouette of Hudson Hill marks the horizon like a faint, ink-drawn smudge.
Crystal Lake maintains a rhythm dictated by the land’s stubborn, subtropical character, an economy once tethered to the timber and turpentine that flowed through the region’s early years. The legacy of these industries lingers in the quiet, methodical pace of the local trade, where the prosperity of the past has settled into a durable, unpretentious endurance. Residents often look toward the expansive greenery of Pine Log State Forest, which serves as a vast, protected reservoir of native flora and fauna, standing as a stark contrast to the small-scale agricultural plots that break up the pine barrens. Life in Crystal Lake persists with a steady, deliberate consistency, favoring the slow accumulation of seasons over the frantic pulse of the modern world, as the humidity settles over the fields like a heavy, velvet cloak.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Crystal Lake, Florida. Coordinates: 28.035979, -81.899636. 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 Crystal Lake includes the ZIP code (33064, 32428, 33801), telephone area code (850, 561), county seat of Washington County (Chipley), and school district assignment (Polk 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. |