Explore Gotha, 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 Gotha, 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 Gotha.
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 | Gotha |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Orange County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 28.52778 |
| Longitude | -81.523128 |
| Population | 2,217 |
| Density | 499.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 34734 |
| Area Code | 727 |
| County Seat | Orlando |
| School District | Orange County School District |
Gotha anchors its identity in the low, humid embrace of a landscape where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and verdant, encroaching growth. It lies 2.1 miles north-northeast of Lake Butler, FL (from Lake Butler, FL: bearing 31°T), and is situated 8.8 miles west of Orlando. The terrain reveals itself in quiet shifts of palmetto scrub and thickets of cypress, where the light at dusk turns a bruised, liquid violet that seems to pool in the hollows of the soil. Only a mile away, the surface of Lake Down mirrors the expanse of an endless, shifting sky, while the distant, saline breath of Wauseon Bay reminds the traveler of the proximity to the open coast. Within the immediate perimeter, Gotha Park serves as a silent, green anchor, offering a patch of stillness where the subtropical sun filters through the canopy in sharp, angular shafts, illuminating the fine, grey dust of the paths.
History lingers in Gotha like the slow, persistent pulse of a tide, grounded in an economy that once looked to the promise of citrus groves and the patient labor of the soil. The rhythm of life here remains tied to the slow cycles of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of the larger world, yet colored by the legacies of those who first cleared the brush to cultivate this specific patch of land. Though Shingle Creek meanders nine miles away and Gator Island waits five miles distant, the life of the inhabitants remains centered on the immediate, tangible reality of their surroundings. Every afternoon, as the horizon darkens with the promise of a sudden, cooling rain, the character of Gotha clarifies—a place defined not by grand gestures, but by the steady, unyielding persistence of the natural world against the quiet efforts of the people who dwell within it.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gotha, Florida. Coordinates: 28.52778, -81.523128. 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 Gotha includes the ZIP code (34734), telephone area code (727), county seat of Orange County (Orlando), and school district assignment (Orange 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. |