Explore El Jobean, 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 El Jobean, 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 El Jobean.
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 | El Jobean |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Charlotte County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 26.964505 |
| Longitude | -82.210648 |
| Population | 1,200 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 33953, 33927, 33993 |
| Area Code | 561 |
| County Seat | Punta Gorda |
El Jobean maintains a quiet vigil where the dark, tannin-stained waters of the Myakka River broaden and slow, surrendering their current to the tidal pull of Tippecanoe Bay. It lies 5.7 miles south-southeast of North Port, FL (from North Port, FL: bearing 164°T), and is situated 7.4 miles west of Port Charlotte. The landscape here is defined by a low, humid horizon where salt-tolerant mangroves tangle with the edges of palmetto scrub, creating a blurred boundary between the firm earth and the shallow, brackish reaches of the coast. Sunlight often settles over the river with a heavy, bruised clarity, casting long shadows across the marsh grass and turning the water to the color of hammered pewter as the afternoon light wanes. Visitors seeking the stillness of the water often gather at the El Jobean Fishing Pier, a structure that reaches out into the river’s mouth, offering a vantage point to watch the pelicans dive and the tides shift with a rhythmic, indifferent gravity.
El Jobean emerged from the ambitions of early developers who saw the river as a vein for commerce, though the frantic pulse of industry eventually receded, leaving behind a pace dictated more by the weather than the clock. While the echoes of its past as a small rail and shipping outpost have faded, the local economy now breathes in the quiet intervals between the arrival of seasonal travelers and the daily habits of those who favor the solitude of the riverbank. The nearby McCall Sand Flats and the distant presence of Hog Island serve as reminders of the shifting, sedimentary nature of this terrain, where the ground feels less like a permanent fixture and more like a work in progress. Life in El Jobean moves with the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons, characterized by the damp, sweet scent of cypress and the sudden, electric charge of the air that precedes a summer storm.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of El Jobean, Florida. Coordinates: 26.964505, -82.210648. 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 El Jobean includes the ZIP code (33953, 33927, 33993), telephone area code (561), county seat of Charlotte County (Punta Gorda), 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 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. |