Explore Grand Island, 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 Grand Island, 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 Grand Island.
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 | Grand Island |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Lake County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 28.882488 |
| Longitude | -81.728966 |
| Population | 2,800 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 32735 |
| Area Code | 904 |
| County Seat | Tavares |
Grand Island emerges from the dense, subtropical humidity as a quiet expanse of palmetto scrub and tangled woodland, where the air holds the heavy, sweet scent of damp earth and citrus. It lies 3.3 miles northwest of Eustis, FL (from Eustis, FL: bearing 308°T), and is situated 5.4 miles north of Tavares. The horizon remains flat and expansive, broken only by the silhouettes of moss-draped trees that lean toward the dark, still surface of Lake Eustis. Morning light here possesses a translucent, silver quality, catching the moisture that clings to the sawgrass and the low-hanging branches of cypress. Even at a remove from the open coastline, the atmosphere carries a maritime weight, a lingering dampness that softens the edges of the landscape and turns the afternoon sky into a bruised, electric gray before the inevitable arrival of a summer storm.
Grand Island preserves a rhythm defined by its long-standing connection to the water, drawing its character from the proximity of Haynes Creek and the quiet commerce centered around Gator Bay Marina. Generations have navigated these interior waterways, finding a steady livelihood in the soil and the currents that feed into the broader basin of the region. Visitors often pause at Marsh Park and Boat Ramp to watch the light shift over the reeds, a place where the stillness is interrupted only by the sudden splash of an egret or the distant hum of a boat engine. While the distant profile of Tomato Hill anchors the view to the west, the local life remains focused on the immediate, tangible connection to the land and the slow, deliberate pace of a life lived between the islands and the shore.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Grand Island, Florida. Coordinates: 28.882488, -81.728966. 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 Grand Island includes the ZIP code (32735), telephone area code (904), county seat of Lake County (Tavares), 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. |