Explore Panacea, 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 Panacea, 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 Panacea.
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 | Panacea |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Wakulla County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 30.02642 |
| Longitude | -84.392586 |
| Population | 735 |
| Density | 170.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 32346 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| County Seat | Crawfordville |
| School District | Wakulla County School District |
Panacea wears the heavy, salt-thickened air of the Gulf of Mexico like a damp wool coat, its landscape defined by the slow, rhythmic pulse of tides against the jagged shoreline. It lies 28.4 miles south-southwest of Tallahassee, FL (from Tallahassee, FL: bearing 193°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south of Crawfordville. Low-slung palmetto scrub and tangled cypress brakes crowd the edges of the earth, where the humidity clings to the skin and the horizon dissolves into a shimmering, gray-blue haze. Just a short distance inland, the dark, tannin-stained waters of Skipper Creek meander through the marsh, feeding into the wider expanse of the coast, while the quiet surface of Alligator Lake remains undisturbed by the fretful energy of the sea. Beyond the immediate shore, the vast, protected wetlands of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge act as a silent guardian, preserving a wild, unmanicured character that feels indifferent to the passage of modern time.
Panacea traces its identity to the sea, built upon a foundation of commercial fishing and a long-standing reliance on the bounty pulled from the Gulf of Mexico. The local economy persists in this quiet labor, with docks that have seen generations of watermen mend nets and haul heavy crates of blue crab and mullet into the harbor. While the nearby presence of Porter Island offers a jagged silhouette against the rising sun, the true character of the place is found in the communal patience of those who work the water and the deliberate, slow-turning pace of life under the subtropical sun. It is a place where the history of the coast is written in the weathered timber of the piers and the persistent, briny scent that permeates every corner, ensuring that Panacea remains tethered to the tides even as the world beyond its marshy borders continues its relentless advance.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Panacea, Florida. Coordinates: 30.02642, -84.392586. 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 Panacea includes the ZIP code (32346), telephone area code (850), county seat of Wakulla County (Crawfordville), and school district assignment (Wakulla 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. |