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State. Florida. County. Lee. Pine Island is the largest island on the Gulf Coast of peninsular Florida in the United States. Located in Lee County, on the Gulf of Mexico coast of southwest Florida, it is also the 118th largest island in the United States. The Intracoastal Waterway passes through Pine Island Sound, to the west of the island.
State Road 84. An aerial view of the interchange of FL 84 at I-95. State Road 84 (SR 84) is a highway in the U.S. state of Florida originally extending from Tamiami Trail ( U.S. Route 41) in Naples to Federal Highway ( U.S. Route 1) in Fort Lauderdale. The road now consists of two noncontiguous pieces––in Collier County as Davis Boulevard ...
0281316 [4] Website. www .davie-fl .gov. Davie is a town in Broward County, Florida, United States, approximately 24 miles (39 km) north of Miami. The town's population was 110,320 at the 2020 census, [5] making it the largest town in Florida by population. Davie is a principal town of the Miami metropolitan area.
Length. 3.6 mi [13] (5.8 km) Existed. 1980–present. County Road 78A is a spur road off of State Road 78 between Cape Coral and North Fort Myers locally known as Pondella Road. It provides a quicker way for motorists traveling east on CR 78 to access Downtown Fort Myers. The road was known as SR 78A before 1980.
History. In the 1950s, Charles Oliver Wellington, an accountant from Massachusetts, purchased about 18,000 acres (73 km 2) of central Palm Beach County swampland located south of Florida State Road 80 (locally known as Southern Boulevard) and west of U.S. Route 441.
Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area.
Area. 78,000 acres (320 km 2) [1] Picayune Strand State Forest is one of 37 state forests in Florida managed by the Florida Forest Service. The 78,000-acre forest consists primarily of cypress swamps, wet pine flatwoods and wet prairies. It also features a grid of closed roads over part of it, left over from previous land development schemes.
Website. www .broward .org. Broward County ( / ˈbraʊ.ərd / BROURD, BROW- (w)ərd) is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with 1,944,375 residents as of the 2020 census. [7]