Union County, Florida Map
Explore Union County, Florida with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 2 cities and towns in Union County below.
Interactive Map of Union County, Florida
| County | Union |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County Seat | Lake Butler |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 29.996628 |
| Longitude | -82.329973 |
| Cities & Towns | 2 |
| Area Codes | 850, 904 |
About Union County, Florida
Union County occupies a quiet, inland stretch of northern Florida where the land loses the frantic energy of the coast and settles into a steady, flat consistency. It is a place defined by the Santa Fe River, which traces a winding boundary along the southern edge, drawing its character from the deep, dark drainage of limestone sinks and the persistent moisture of cypress-lined basins. The soil here possesses a heavy, sandy texture, supporting dense stands of pine that seem to hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has retreated. When the humidity breaks, the air takes on a crisp, sharpened clarity, allowing the scent of damp earth and crushed needles to linger low against the ground, undisturbed by the sea breezes that govern the peninsula’s extremities.
Formation of the county occurred in the early twentieth century, carved out from a larger neighbor to provide a more localized governance for the families who had long cleared the timber and worked the acreage. The county seat emerged as a central point of commerce and administration, established where the intersection of rural roads necessitated a place for the exchange of goods and the settling of legal affairs. Its architecture remains utilitarian and modest, reflecting a time when the necessity of survival dictated the scale of public buildings. There is a particular quality to the light in the late afternoon here, a pale, amber glow that washes over the weathered brick and graying wood of the older structures, casting long, stark shadows that seem to anchor the small municipality firmly to the red clay beneath it.
Labor in Union County remains closely tied to the cycles of the earth, with forestry and agricultural production forming the backbone of the local life. Residents move with a deliberate pace, navigating the transition between the working day and the quiet seclusion of their private acres. The landscape is marked by open fields and the encroaching edges of managed timberlands, where the silence is broken only by the sudden, sharp call of a hawk or the distant drone of heavy machinery. It is a county that does not seek to impress the transient traveler, finding its satisfaction instead in the consistency of the seasons and the unadorned reality of a life lived close to the soil. Here, the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable growth of the forest and the persistent, quiet endurance of the people who call this territory their own.
Cities and Towns in Union County
About This Union County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Union County, Florida alongside links to detailed street maps for 2 cities and towns. The county seat is Lake Butler. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
