The Ansons Bay postcode was changed from 7216 to 7264 in 2009 because the mail service is now via Gladstone rather than St Helens.

[4] Ansons Bay Receiving House (a private post office) opened on 15 December 1913 and closed around 1917.

[5] The waters of the Bay of Fires, part of the Tasman Sea, form the eastern boundary.

Ansons Bay (the body of water) is joined to the ocean by a narrow channel and is almost completely surrounded by the locality.

Route C846 (Eddystone Point Road) starts at an intersection with C843 and runs along part of the northern boundary.