Explore Eloise, 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 Eloise, 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 Eloise.
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 | Eloise |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Polk County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 27.994745 |
| Longitude | -81.738135 |
| Population | 4,800 |
| Density | 480.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 33880 |
| Area Code | 561 |
| County Seat | Bartow |
Eloise emerges from the heat-hazed interior of the peninsula as a place defined by the heavy, sweet scent of citrus and the low, persistent hum of subtropical insects. It lies 1.9 miles south of Winter Haven, FL (from Winter Haven, FL: bearing 190°T), and is situated 9.3 miles northeast of Bartow. The landscape surrounding Eloise remains stubbornly flat, a tapestry of palmetto scrub and wide, open expanses where the light turns a bruised violet in the minutes before sunset. At the edge of the residential grid, the dark, still waters of Lake Shipp anchor the horizon, reflecting the heavy clouds that gather with clockwork precision during the humid afternoons. A few miles to the east, the Gaskin Branch marks the transition into denser thickets, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Iron Mountain offers the only vertical relief against an otherwise infinite sky.
Economic life in Eloise maintains a quiet tether to the soil, echoing the decades when the surrounding groves dictated the calendar of every household. While the machinery of modern industry has shifted the local rhythm, the legacy of the citrus trade remains etched in the sprawling, verdant rows that press against the town’s boundaries. Residents often gather at William G Roe Park & Boat Ramp to watch the light settle over the water, finding a communal stillness that persists despite the changing world outside. This patch of earth remains rugged and unpretentious, a place where the air hangs thick with the promise of rain and the slow, deliberate pace of life acknowledges the power of the land above all else.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Eloise, Florida. Coordinates: 27.994745, -81.738135. 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 Eloise includes the ZIP code (33880), telephone area code (561), county seat of Polk County (Bartow), 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. |