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Pensacola Bay is a bay located in the northwestern part of Florida, United States, known as the Florida Panhandle. The bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico , is located in Escambia County and Santa Rosa County , adjacent to the city of Pensacola, Florida , and is about 13 miles (21 km) long and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide.
Loggerhead Key is an uninhabited tropical island within the Dry Tortugas group of islands in the Gulf of Mexico. [3] At approximately 49 acres (19.8 hectares) in size, it is the largest island of the Dry Tortugas.
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Pensacola (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ə ˈ k oʊ l ə / PEN-sə-KOH-lə) is a city in the Florida panhandle in the United States. It is the county seat and only city in Escambia County.The population was 54,312 at the 2020 census. [6]
Cudjoe Key is located in the Florida Keys at (24.664298, -81.482339 U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway ) crosses the key at about mile markers 20.5 – 23, between Summerland and Sugarloaf Keys . The highway leads west-southwest 20 miles (32 km) to Key West , east 30 miles (48 km) to Marathon , and a total of 136 miles (219 km) northeast to Miami .
Pensacola Beach Boulevard Via de Luna Drive W/E SR 399: Pensacola Beach: CR 399: Santa Rosa County line in Pensacola Beach: Former SR 399 [1] CR 443: North E Street S/N US 90 / North E Street Pensacola: SR 752: Goulding–Brent line Former SR 443 [1] CR 453: W Street S/N US 98 Pensacola: US 29 Brent: Former SR 453 [1] CR 465: Hope Drive
Also see: History of Pensacola, Florida. Francisco Maldonado, a lieutenant [4] under Conquistador Hernando de Soto, visited the area during the early Spanish exploration of North America. He anchored in Pensacola Bay for the winter of 1539–1540. [5] [6] In 1559, Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano led the first settlement of the region. [4]
The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) connecting Pensacola to Mobile Bay, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, was started during 1931 during the Great Depression. The digging that would connect Pensacola, Big Lagoon (also known as Grande Lagoon), Perdido Bay, and Mobile Bay was completed in 1933. Perdido Key Island is now about 16 miles (26 km) long with ...