Explore Southport, 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 Southport, 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 Southport.
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 | Southport |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Bay County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.289366 |
| Longitude | -85.640483 |
| Population | 873 |
| Density | 457.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 32409 |
| Area Code | 850 |
| County Seat | Panama City |
| School District | Bay County School District |
Southport endures as a quiet expanse where the heavy, humid air clings to the dark needles of loblolly pines and the low-lying palmetto scrub. It lies 3.1 miles north of Lynn Haven, FL (from Lynn Haven, FL: bearing 9°T), and is situated 9.1 miles north of Panama City. The earth here is damp and yielding, defined by the presence of Fannin Bayou, whose still surface reflects the shifting grays of a sky prone to sudden, violent bursts of lightning. Only a mile away, the brackish reach of Gainer Bayou pulls at the edges of the land, while the distant, winding path of Econfina Creek carves a slow passage through the surrounding woods. Beyond the immediate thickets, the landscape remains flat and unyielding, a subtropical basin where the light at dusk turns a bruised, singular violet, illuminating the dense vegetation in a way that feels both ancient and entirely indifferent to the passage of time.
Southport maintains a modest character shaped by the rhythms of the water and the persistent cycles of a land that rarely demands haste from those who inhabit it. Generations have looked toward the nearby waterways to sustain their livelihood, anchoring their existence to the modest commerce of the region and the quiet industry of the coastal fringes. Residents often find their way toward A.L. Kinsaul Park to observe the slow movement of the tides, a brief respite in a day otherwise spent navigating the humid, sun-drenched stretches of the local terrain. While the reach of the modern world occasionally flickers on the horizon, Southport remains defined by its isolation and the deep, quiet gravity of its own geography, leaving the traveler to contemplate the silent, water-heavy stillness that settles over the marsh long after the sun has retreated.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Southport, Florida. Coordinates: 30.289366, -85.640483. 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 Southport includes the ZIP code (32409), telephone area code (850), county seat of Bay County (Panama City), and school district assignment (Bay 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. |