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St. James City Florida Map

Explore St. James City, 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 St. James City, Florida

How to Use This St. James City, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for St. James City, 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 St. James City.

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	St. James City
State	Florida (FL)
County	Lee County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	26.542582
Longitude	-82.101977
Population	3,876
Density	102.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	33956
Area Code	561
County Seat	Fort Myers
School District	Lee County School District

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About St. James City, Florida

St. James City is a locality in Lee County, Florida, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,876. The population density is 102.5 people per km². St. James City is located at 26.5426°N, 82.1020°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 33956.

St. James City emerges from the salt-heavy air where the Phillips Canal carves a dark, navigable vein through the low-slung, subtropical landscape. It lies 7.2 miles west-southwest of Iona, FL (from Iona, FL: bearing 257°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west-southwest of Cape Coral. The land here remains a delicate tension between earth and tide, defined by the encroaching reach of the Gulf of Mexico and the tangled, verdant silence of the Pine Island Sound Aquatic Preserve. Mangrove thickets cling to the mudflats with gnarled roots, their shadows deepening as the humid afternoon light shifts from a brilliant, bleaching white to a bruised, heavy violet. Beyond the immediate shoreline, the Sister Keys sit low against the horizon like emeralds cast upon a glass floor, while the distant rise of Faulkner Mound offers the only suggestion of height in a world governed by the slow, rhythmic pulse of the sea.

St. James City carries the quiet, weathered legacy of a frontier outpost, having evolved from a rugged settlement into a sanctuary for those who favor the slow migration of the tides over the clamor of the mainland. The local economy persists in the rhythm of the docks and the seasonal arrival of those seeking refuge from the northern frost, their presence coloring the social landscape with a transient vitality. Life here is anchored by the water, where the legacy of fishing and small-scale maritime trade lingers in the weathered wood of piers and the scent of brine that permeates the palmetto scrub. Even the memory of Sanibel Bayou, resting three miles away, informs the character of the residents, who move with an unforced cadence that acknowledges the thin, porous boundary between their homes and the vast, shifting wilderness of the coast.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Pine Island Flatwoods Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — locality lies within
Pine Island Sound Aquatic Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.4 mi, 263° W
Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 0.7 mi, 184° S
Great Calusa Blueway (Local Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 077° E
St. James Creek Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 141° SE
Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.6 mi, 091° E · 1,064 acres
Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.7 mi, 324° NW · 1,260 acres
J. N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 4.7 mi, 201° S · 2,851 acres
Captiva Cruises (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 255° W
Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 6.1 mi, 188° S
Gulf Coast Model Train Room (Attraction) — 6.7 mi, 104° E
Shell Point Gallery (Gallery) — 7.8 mi, 109° E
Connie Brown Hall (Theatre) — 7.8 mi, 109° E
Legacy Gallery (Gallery) — 7.8 mi, 109° E
Tribby Café;Overlook Gallery (Gallery) — 7.8 mi, 109° E
Caloosahatchee (Historic Ruins) — 7.9 mi, 069° E
Bailey Tract (Nature Reserve) — 7.9 mi, 172° S
David McCreary's House (Attraction) — 8.4 mi, 082° E
Horse & Foal Statues (Public Artwork) — 8.4 mi, 108° E
Randell Mound (Historic Ruins) — 8.6 mi, 339° N
Smugglers Cove - adventure golf (Attraction) — 10.5 mi, 111° E
Lynn Hall Memorial (Monument) — 10.9 mi, 124° SE
Cape Coral Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 052° NE
Marquee Cinemas Coralwood 10 (Cinema) — 11.2 mi, 065° NE
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 12.3 mi, 068° E
Rush Auditorium (Theatre) — 13.3 mi, 087° E
Yucca Pens Unit (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 021° N
Gasparilla Island State Park (State Park) — 15.5 mi, 321° NW
Lovers Key State Park (State Recreation Area) — 16.6 mi, 127° SE
Everglades National Park (National Park) — 60.5 mi, 141° SE · 3.0M acres

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