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Horseshoe Beach Florida Map

Explore Horseshoe Beach, 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.

Interactive Map of Horseshoe Beach, Florida

How to Use This Horseshoe Beach, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Horseshoe Beach, 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 Horseshoe Beach.

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	Horseshoe Beach
State	Florida (FL)
County	Dixie County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	29.441345
Longitude	-83.287355
Population	165
Density	135.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	32648
Area Code	904
County Seat	Cross City
School District	Dixie County School District

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About Horseshoe Beach, Florida

Horseshoe Beach is a locality in Dixie County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 165. The population density is 135.8 people per km². Horseshoe Beach is located at 29.4413°N, 83.2874°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Horseshoe Beach is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 32648.

Horseshoe Beach anchors a low-slung, salt-misted horizon where the flat Florida peninsula surrenders to the Gulf of Mexico. It lies 56.1 miles west-southwest of Alachua, FL (from Alachua, FL: bearing 248°T), and is situated 23.0 miles west-southwest of Manatee Road. The landscape here is defined by a dense, monochromatic embrace of palmetto scrub and tangled mangroves that push right to the water’s edge, creating a jagged interface between terrestrial soil and tidal reach. A mile to the north, the winding, brackish flow of Tripod Creek drains into the surrounding marshes, while the nearby silhouette of Grassy Island rises slightly above the tide like a dark, verdant hummock. The air carries a perpetual, heavy moisture that softens the edges of the horizon, and at dusk, the light turns a bruised, metallic violet, reflecting off the shallow, oyster-crusted mudflats that define the coastal character of Horseshoe Beach.

Economic life in Horseshoe Beach remains tethered to the harvest of the Gulf of Mexico, with a heritage built upon the steady, seasonal rhythms of commercial fishing and crabbing. The settlement functions as a quiet outpost within the sprawling expanse of the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area, a vast preserve that protects the integrity of these wetlands from suburban encroachment. Residents often look toward the interior, where the landscape occasionally dips into a lime sink or stretches toward the distant Alligator Lake, though the orientation of the people remains stubbornly directed toward the tides. There is an unvarnished honesty to the docks here, where the weathered infrastructure of the working harbor serves as a silent witness to the generations who have navigated these shallow, treacherous waters to sustain the local economy.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Big Bend Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.3 mi, 336° NW
Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.6 mi, 186° S
California Creek Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 022° N
The Jackson Trail historic marker (Monument) — 2.5 mi, 014° N
Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 3.1 mi, 090° E · 154k acres
Manatee Springs State Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 132° SE
Lower Steinhatchee Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 15.9 mi, 346° N
Beech Creek (Historic Ruins) — 16.1 mi, 117° SE
Nature Coast State Trail (State Recreation Area) — 16.6 mi, 030° NE
Spring Dive Entrance (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 080° E
Andrews Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 19.6 mi, 071° E
Shell Mound Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 20.9 mi, 141° SE
Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 21.2 mi, 138° SE
Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.0 mi, 141° SE · 2,519 acres
Suwanee Old Town (Historic Ruins) — 22.8 mi, 058° NE
Fanning Springs State Park (State Park) — 22.9 mi, 065° NE
Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 24.3 mi, 151° SE · 299 acres
John Muir At Cedar Key (Monument) — 24.7 mi, 144° SE
Chief Theater (Theatre) — 25.9 mi, 084° E
Cedar Key Pirate Invasion (Attraction) — 26.1 mi, 144° SE
Naked Ed (Attraction) — 46.2 mi, 054° NE
Cedar Lakes Woods and Gardens (Attraction) — 48.7 mi, 093° E
High Springs Community Theater (Theatre) — 49.4 mi, 057° NE
Medal of Honor (Monument) — 53.5 mi, 077° E
Santa Fe Teaching Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 53.7 mi, 072° E
Three Sisters Springs Trolley (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 56.1 mi, 132° SE
Coastal Art Gallery (Gallery) — 56.1 mi, 132° SE
Franklin Anderson Art Gallery (Gallery) — 56.1 mi, 132° SE
Butterfly Rainforest (Nature Reserve) — 56.8 mi, 076° E
Alpha Gator Statue (Public Artwork) — 57.7 mi, 076° E

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