THE CEDAR KEY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Big Bend Coastal Marsh setting.
Cedar Key city has 1.03 square miles of land in Levy County. Its Census boundary intersects Big Bend Coastal Marsh, within Southern Coastal Plain.
Low plains mingle with barrier islands, lagoons, marshes and inland lake districts. Coastal and inland settings vary substantially within this warm southeastern landscape.
Regional context: Southern Coastal Plain ↗ · Classification from the Census boundary intersection
The Census reference point falls outside the regional layer’s mapped footprint. This classification uses the actual place-boundary intersection, with Big Bend Coastal Marsh representing its largest mapped overlap. Shorelines and dataset boundaries can differ.
Cedar Key and Levy County
Cedar Key is associated with Levy County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Cedar Key by land and water
The Census records 1.16 square miles of water within Cedar Key, or 52.9% of its total area. It is 23.2 percentage points higher than the 29.7% recorded for Levy County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cedar Key city has 13.3% of the land area of nearby Yankeetown town (7.73 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

