Enter your search query in the box below.

Venus Florida Map

Explore Venus, 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 Venus, Florida

How to Use This Venus, Florida Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Venus, 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 Venus.

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	Venus
State	Florida (FL)
County	Highlands County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	27.067276
Longitude	-81.35674
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	33960
Area Code	561
County Seat	Sebring

🌦 Goto Venus Weather Page: Venus, Florida — Weather Warnings, Forecast, Radar, Satellite & Current Conditions

About Venus, Florida

Venus is a locality in Highlands County, Florida, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Venus is located at 27.0673°N, 81.3567°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 33960.

Venus occupies a quiet expanse of inland earth where the sun bleaches the palmetto scrub to a pale, bone-white gray. It lies 30.0 miles south of Sebring, FL (from Sebring, FL: bearing 170°T), and is situated 15.6 miles south of Lake Placid. The landscape surrounding Venus remains defined by the slow, humid breath of the interior, where flat, sandy plains stretch toward the horizon under a sky that frequently erupts in the sharp, sudden violet of a summer storm. Only a mile away, the quiet flow of Platt Branch sustains the verdant, tangled edges of the Platt Branch Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area, a sanctuary where the shadows of cypress limbs lengthen across the dark, tannin-stained water. The air here holds a heavy, persistent warmth, ripening the atmosphere until it feels thick enough to touch, especially when the afternoon light catches the dust rising from the unpaved tracks that crisscross the open brush.

Agriculture dictates the rhythm of life in Venus, grounding the community in the seasonal cycles of citrus groves and the steady, patient work of the land. History lingers in the sparse layout of the village, a legacy of agricultural development that favored utility over ornament, leaving space for the wilder, scrubby flora to reclaim the margins of the fields. While Lake Huntley sits fourteen miles away, it serves as a distant anchor for the region’s hydrology, a reminder of the water that shapes the character of these inland reaches. Residents move with a deliberate pace, accustomed to the silence that settles over the fields after the midday heat subsides, leaving a stillness so profound it seems to resonate with the very pulse of the earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Platt Branch Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 212° SW
Lake Wales Ridge Wildlife and Environmental Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 025° NE
Gatorama (Attraction) — 11.1 mi, 159° S
Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 349° N
Lake Placid Arts & Crafts (Arts Centre) — 15.9 mi, 358° N
Lake Placid Historical Society (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 358° N
Lake Okeechobee (Recreation Area) — 16.2 mi, 115° SE
LaBelle Heritage Museum (Museum) — 21.3 mi, 194° S
Firehouse Community Theatre (Theatre) — 21.5 mi, 193° S
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 21.7 mi, 193° S
North of Lake Okeechobee Storage Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 24.0 mi, 081° E
Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.1 mi, 355° N · 3,792 acres
Highlands Hammock State Park (State Park) — 25.8 mi, 338° N
Airboat Wildlife Adventures (Attraction) — 26.2 mi, 008° N
Solar Ranch (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 239° SW
CCC Museum (Museum) — 29.9 mi, 339° N
Visual Art Center (Arts Centre) — 30.0 mi, 350° N
Highlands Museum of the Arts (Museum) — 30.0 mi, 350° N
Highlands Lakeside Theatre (Theatre) — 30.0 mi, 350° N
Sebring - Ridge Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 350° N
The Farmstead (Public Artwork) — 31.2 mi, 229° SW
Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge And Conservation Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.7 mi, 023° NE · 11k acres
Octagon Wildlife Sanctuary (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 31.9 mi, 233° SW
B&B Theatres Sebring Fairmount Square Cinema 6 (Cinema) — 32.3 mi, 345° N
De Soto County (Monument) — 32.5 mi, 288° W
Belgium (Historic Ruins) — 34.9 mi, 290° W
Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 38.9 mi, 261° W
Gasparilla Sound - Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 41.9 mi, 253° W
Big Cypress National Preserve Addition (National Conservation Area) — 56.3 mi, 179° S · 142k acres
Big Cypress National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 56.3 mi, 178° S · 541k acres

Latest News: Venus

Loading news…

World News

Loading news-world…

More World News