Explore Fidelis, 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 Fidelis, 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 Fidelis.
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 | Fidelis |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Santa Rosa County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.936295 |
| Longitude | -87.024132 |
| Population | 137 |
| Density | 18.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 32565 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| County Seat | Milton |
| School District | Santa Rosa County School District |
Fidelis exists as a quiet intersection of red clay roads and longleaf pines, where the heavy, humid air clings to the skin like a damp wool blanket. It lies 21.0 miles north of Milton, FL (from Milton, FL: bearing 3°T), and is situated 12.0 miles south-southeast of Brewton. The landscape surrounding Fidelis unfolds in a series of gentle swells, marked by the persistent, dark green presence of the Blackwater River State Forest just a mile away, where the undergrowth is thick with palmetto scrub and the shadows stretch long across the sandy earth. Lewis Branch cuts a modest, winding path through the brush nearby, its water moving with a slow, deliberate gravity that dictates the drainage of the fields. Beyond the immediate canopy, the horizon is flattened by the vast, open sky, save for the distant, hazy rise of Sand Mound rising eleven miles to the north, a subtle interruption in an otherwise unbroken expanse of inland woodland.
Fidelis draws its character from a legacy of timber and small-scale agriculture, industries that have long defined the steady, unpretentious pace of local life. The influence of the Escambia National Experimental Forest, situated six miles out, remains a quiet steward of the regional economy, grounding the residents in a tradition of land management and forestry that persists despite the changing seasons. Life here is measured not by the clock, but by the shifting quality of light at dusk, when the sun turns the soil a deep, bruised copper and the heat finally begins to fracture. While Brantley Lake rests ten miles away, the daily rhythm of Fidelis remains tied to the immediate woods and the quiet, persistent work of those who labor in the shade of the pines, far removed from the frantic reach of the modern world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fidelis, Florida. Coordinates: 30.936295, -87.024132. 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 Fidelis includes the ZIP code (32565), telephone area code (850), county seat of Santa Rosa County (Milton), and school district assignment (Santa Rosa 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. |