Explore Zolfo Springs, 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 Zolfo Springs, 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 Zolfo Springs.
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 | Zolfo Springs |
| State | Florida (FL) |
| County | Hardee County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 27.493372 |
| Longitude | -81.795916 |
| Population | 1,737 |
| Density | 385.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 33890 |
| Area Code | 561 |
| County Seat | Wauchula |
| School District | Hardee County School District |
Zolfo Springs anchors itself upon a flat, humid expanse where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and blooming citrus. It lies 19.1 miles west-southwest of Avon Park, FL (from Avon Park, FL: bearing 248°T), and is situated 3.8 miles south-southeast of Wauchula. The land here is defined by low-lying palmetto scrub and thick stands of cypress that cast long, ink-black shadows across the sandy soil as the sun begins its descent. Only a mile away, the Peace River carves a sluggish, tea-colored path through the landscape, its banks thick with tangled vegetation that muffles the sound of the world beyond. To the north, the horizon remains stubbornly level, lacking the dramatic rise of features like Sand Mountain, which sits sixteen miles distant as a faint, hazy suggestion of elevation. Within the immediate reach of the Zolfo Springs City Park, the afternoon light turns a bruised, golden hue, illuminating the moss that clings to the branches like tattered lace and giving the entire basin the feeling of a place suspended in a perpetual, humid dream.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Zolfo Springs, a reality manifested in the endless, orderly rows of orange groves that stretch toward the horizon under a sky prone to sudden, violent thunderstorms. The economy has long drawn its sustenance from the soil, a tradition that persists alongside the quiet, deliberate pace of daily life where residents move with a measured gravity. While Lake Streety lies nineteen miles away, the identity of the locality is tied more closely to the terrestrial cycles of harvest and the slow, seasonal migration of visitors seeking refuge from colder northern climes. History here is quiet and unadorned, written in the weathered facades of buildings and the enduring resilience of those who cultivate the subtropical interior. The atmosphere remains one of profound stillness, where the persistent humidity seems to amplify the rustle of dry fronds and the occasional, sharp cry of a bird, grounding Zolfo Springs in a persistent, earthly reality that refuses to be hurried.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Zolfo Springs, Florida. Coordinates: 27.493372, -81.795916. 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 Zolfo Springs includes the ZIP code (33890), telephone area code (561), county seat of Hardee County (Wauchula), and school district assignment (Hardee 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. |