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All of the other counties were created later from these two original counties. Florida became the 27th U.S. state in 1845, and its last county was created in 1925 with the formation of Gilchrist County from a segment of Alachua County. [1] Florida's counties are subdivisions of the state government.
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At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
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The Florida panhandle (also known as West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida. It is a salient roughly 200 miles (320 km) long, bordered by Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia on the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Its eastern boundary is arbitrarily defined.
The Red Hills physiographic region of northern Florida was defined in 1914 as most of Leon County north of the Cody Scarp, and small portions of southernmost Grady and Thomas counties in Georgia. The original tree cover of the region was a shortleaf pine -oak-hickory woodland with deep sandy clay soil.
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Palm Beach: 33406 Glen St. Mary: 1 Baker: 32040 Glenvar Heights: 1 Miami-Dade: 33143 Glenwood: 1 Bay: 32401 Glenwood: 1 Nassau Glenwood: 1 Volusia: 32722 Glenwood Heights: 1 Miami-DadeGlennell, Florida Glidden Park: 1 St. Lucie Globe: 1 Citrus Glory: 1 Gadsden: 32351 Glynlea: 1 Duval: 32216 Godfrey Road: 1 Broward Golden Beach: 1 Miami-Dade ...