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Okefenokee Georgia Map

Explore Okefenokee, Georgia, 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 Okefenokee, Georgia

How to Use This Okefenokee, Georgia Map

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

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	Okefenokee
State	Georgia (GA)
County	Ware County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	30.666893
Longitude	-82.333179
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	31510
Area Code	229
County Seat	Waycross

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About Okefenokee, Georgia

Okefenokee is a locality in Ware County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Okefenokee is located at 30.6669°N, 82.3332°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 31510.

Okefenokee defines the heavy, humid stillness of a vast, peat-stained landscape where the water sits dark and glass-flat beneath a canopy of longleaf pine and cypress. It lies 37.8 miles south of Waycross, GA (from Waycross, GA: bearing 178°T), and is situated 29.4 miles north-northwest of Macclenny. Within the sprawling expanse of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area, the terrain dissolves into a labyrinth of sawgrass prairies and floating islands that shift with the slow, deliberate pulse of the seasons. Sunlight filters through the dense foliage in long, amber shafts, illuminating the tea-colored depths of Blackjack Lake, which waits in silence only a single mile from the heart of the mire. Ten miles to the west, the subtle rise of Ellicotts Mound marks a rare variation in the otherwise level, saturated ground, providing a quiet anchor in a world where the distinction between earth and water is perpetually blurred by the encroaching moss.

History lingers in the damp air of Okefenokee, a place where generations have balanced on the edge of the impenetrable, harvesting timber and navigating the maze of channels that feed into the distant, winding path of Cypress Creek four miles away. The local economy remains tethered to this slow-moving environment, shifting from the intensive logging practices of a bygone era toward a quiet, watchful stewardship that sustains the refuge today. Life here moves in concert with the cycles of the swamp, far removed from the frantic pace of the modern world, as residents and travelers alike observe the deliberate habits of the wildlife that define the character of this protected wildland. The rhythm of the days is marked not by clocks, but by the gradual cooling of the evening air and the way the shadows lengthen across the peat, preserving a fragile, ancient solitude that remains largely untouched by the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — locality lies within · 350k acres
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — locality lies within · 815k acres
Pinhook Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 6.5 mi, 192° S · 96k acres
John M. Bethea State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 7.0 mi, 157° SE
Eddy Lookout Tower (Viewpoint) — 8.6 mi, 184° S
Ellicott's Mound (Monument) — 9.8 mi, 134° SE
Stephen C. Foster State Park (State Park) — 10.5 mi, 349° N
Richard S. Bolt, Jr. Memorial (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 351° N
9cr86: Suwannee Canal Logging Camp (Historic Ruins) — 11.8 mi, 025° NE
9cr2: Floyd's Island West Mound (Historic Ruins) — 13.5 mi, 016° N
Stephen Collins Foster (Monument) — 13.6 mi, 275° W
Trail Ridge Tract (Conservation Area) — 14.1 mi, 054° NE
Benton Conservation Area (Local Conservation Area) — 14.6 mi, 246° SW
Osceola National Forest (National Forest) — 15.3 mi, 179° S · 160k acres
Natural Area Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 18.5 mi, 184° S · 4,387 acres
Big Gum Swamp Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 19.1 mi, 194° S · 14k acres
Greetings from Folkston, Georgia (Public Artwork) — 22.4 mi, 059° NE
Train Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 059° NE
Okefenokee Swamp Park (Attraction) — 27.2 mi, 008° N
Old Marble Stage (Theatre) — 34.5 mi, 228° SW
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 38.8 mi, 101° E
Haskell Gallery (Gallery) — 40.4 mi, 107° E
Sky Gallery (Gallery) — 40.4 mi, 107° E
Seaton Creek Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 40.8 mi, 104° E
Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area (Nature Reserve) — 42.6 mi, 139° SE
Gator Pond (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 42.6 mi, 104° E
Anheuser-Busch Brewery (Attraction) — 43.9 mi, 112° E
Murray Hill Art Center (Arts Centre) — 43.9 mi, 124° SE
Lake City Weather dot Com (Attraction) — 44.7 mi, 217° SW
Cumberland Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 46.6 mi, 085° E · 55k acres

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