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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Florida sortable by name, county, or coordinates. The county names are modern (as of 2018); in several cases, the ghost town, when inhabited, was in a different county than the modern one.
List of municipalities in Florida. Florida is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 267 cities, 123 towns, and 21 villages in the U.S. state of Florida, a total of 411 municipalities. [ 1 ] They are distributed across 67 counties, in addition to 66 county governments. [ 2 ] Jacksonville has the only consolidated city–county ...
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [ 1 ] They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records. The state received its name from that conquistador, who ...
The American frontier began when Jamestown, Virginia, was settled by the English in 1607. In the earliest days of European settlement on the Atlantic coast, until about 1680, the frontier was essentially any part of the interior of the continent beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the Atlantic coast.
South Florida is the southernmost part of the continental United States and the only region of the continental U.S. that includes some areas with a tropical climate. South Florida is dominated by the Miami metropolitan area and the Everglades. It also contains the Florida Keys; three U.S. national parks: Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, and Everglades ...
This map made by the U.S. military shows the term "Everglades" was in use by 1857. The first written record of the Everglades was on Spanish maps made by cartographers who had not seen the land. They named the unknown area between the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Florida Laguna del Espíritu Santo ("Lake of the Holy Spirit"). [3] The area was featured on maps for decades without having been ...
Sarasota (/ ˌsærəˈsoʊtə /) is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
List of urbanized areas in Florida (by population) Map of Florida Urbanized Areas according the 2010 census. Miami-Fort Lauderdale. Tampa-St. Petersburg. Orlando. Jacksonville. Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice. Cape Coral. Palm Bay-Melbourne.