St. Andrews Bay (Florida)

30°09′08″N 85°41′28″W / 30.15222°N 85.69111°W / 30.15222; -85.69111

Aerial view of St. Andrews Bay and the harbor entrance from the Gulf of Mexico. View is to the east-northeast.

St. Andrew Bay,[1] colloquially called "St. Andrews Bay", is a bay located in Bay County in the panhandle of Florida. It is a 69,000-acre estuary located in northwest Florida. It is relatively deep, and of relatively high salinity due to the low freshwater inflow provided by only a few spring-fed creeks (the most significant being Econfina Creek, fed by Wiliford and Pitts Springs). The county seat of Bay County, Panama City, is located on the bay, named for Saint Andrew. The Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway, which ran from Panama City to Dothan, Alabama (and still exists as a smaller short line), was also named for the bay.

  1. ^ "NOAA Miami Regional Library - Regional Databases - St. Andrew Bay". www.aoml.NOAA.gov. Retrieved February 1, 2018.