Salem Florida Map
Explore Salem, 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 Salem, Florida
How to Use This Salem, Florida Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Salem, 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 Salem.
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 | Salem |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Taylor County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 29.886887 |
| Longitude | -83.412919 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 12.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 32356, 32668 |
| Area Code | 850, 904 |
| County Seat | Perry |
About Salem, Florida
Salem is a locality in Taylor County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 12.0 people per km². Salem is located at 29.8869°N, 83.4129°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 32356, 32668.Salem breathes under a dense, humid canopy where the dark, tannin-stained waters of California Creek carve a path through the flat pine flatwoods. It lies 50.8 miles west-southwest of Lake City, FL (from Lake City, FL: bearing 246°T), and is situated 18.9 miles south-southeast of Perry. The landscape surrounding Salem is defined by a low, porous terrain where the limestone bedrock occasionally yields to the dissolution of the earth, creating the geological depressions known as the California Sinks. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, weighted quality, filtering through the dense mid-story of palmetto scrub and towering slash pines that define the regional horizon. Two miles to the east, the Upper Steinhatchee Conservation Area provides a vast expanse of protected timberland, ensuring that the wild, tangled character of the interior remains largely undisturbed by the outside world.
Economic life in Salem has long been tethered to the timber industry and the slow, deliberate work of land management that defines this quiet corner of the interior. The history of the settlement is etched into the sawdust and the enduring patience of those who work the rural tracts, far removed from the busier, faster-paced corridors of the state. Life in Salem follows the cycle of the seasons, marked by the intense, sudden thunderstorms of the humid afternoons and the long, amber glow of dusk that settles over the pine needles. While Cypress Lake lies thirteen miles away, drawing those who seek the stillness of deeper waters, the residents here find their own rhythm in the small clearings and the persistent, quiet growth of the surrounding woods.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Upper Steinhatchee Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 2.4 mi, 063° NE
- Lower Steinhatchee Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 146° SE
- Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 9.7 mi, 149° SE
- Big Bend Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.8 mi, 219° SW
- The House of Seven Gables (Historic Ruins) — 18.2 mi, 051° NE
- Lafayette Blue Springs State Park (State Park) — 19.7 mi, 034° NE
- Nugalla (Historic Ruins) — 26.2 mi, 293° NW
- Observation Tower (Viewpoint) — 28.3 mi, 289° W
- The Jackson Trail historic marker (Monument) — 29.5 mi, 164° S
- Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.5 mi, 160° S · 154k acres
- St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.1 mi, 291° W · 246k acres
- St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 36.1 mi, 291° W · 18k acres
- Spring Dive Entrance (Attraction) — 38.0 mi, 136° SE
- Treasures of Madison County Museum (Museum) — 40.2 mi, 000° N
- Lake City Weather dot Com (Attraction) — 41.8 mi, 064° NE
- Ray Charles childhood home (Attraction) — 42.2 mi, 341° N
- Ray Charles statue (Monument) — 42.3 mi, 342° N
- Chief Theater (Theatre) — 43.6 mi, 130° SE
- Naked Ed (Attraction) — 45.2 mi, 095° E
- Great Blue Heron (Public Artwork) — 47.5 mi, 293° NW
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About This Salem Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Salem, Florida. Coordinates: 29.886887, -83.412919. 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 Salem includes the ZIP code (32356, 32668), telephone area code (850, 904), county seat of Taylor County (Perry), 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. |
