Garcon Point Florida Map

About Garcon Point, Florida

Garcon Point is a locality in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 457. The population density is 93.0 people per km². Garcon Point is located at 30.4758°N, 87.0900°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 32583.

Garcon Point stretches as a low-slung, sandy finger of land reaching into the humid embrace of the Gulf of Mexico. It lies 7.7 miles east-southeast of Ferry Pass, FL (from Ferry Pass, FL: bearing 108°T), and is situated 8.4 miles east-northeast of Pensacola. The air here thickens with the scent of brine and damp earth, where palmetto scrub gives way to the dense, dark shadows of cypress swamps. At the water’s edge, the tides pull rhythmically against the shoreline, washing over silt and salt-crusted driftwood while the sun bleaches the landscape into shades of pale bone and deep, verdant green. Just a mile away, the quiet passage of Basin Bayou drains the surrounding woodlands, its tea-colored waters filtering slowly toward the saltier currents of the coast. This is a terrain defined by its permeability, where the line between solid ground and the encroaching tide remains perpetually blurred under a heavy, subtropical sky.

Human presence at Garcon Point has long been tethered to the rhythms of the water, favoring a life of quiet extraction and seasonal harvest over the frantic pace of modern sprawl. The legacy of the land is preserved in the nearby Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park, a sanctuary where the marsh grass sighs in the wind and the silence is broken only by the sharp call of wading birds. Economic life here remains modest, rooted in the traditions of the coast and the stewardship of the natural surroundings rather than industrial ambition. While the distant, rolling crests of the Sabine Sand Hills provide a faint boundary to the horizon, the focus of Garcon Point remains fixed on the water, where the light at dusk turns the surface of the Gulf of Mexico into a sheet of hammered copper, reflecting the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons.

About This Garcon Point Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Garcon Point, Florida. Coordinates: 30.4758, -87.09. 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 Garcon Point includes the ZIP code (32583), telephone area code (850), county seat of Santa Rosa County (Milton), and school district assignment (Santa Rosa County School District).

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.