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CR 384 in Port St. Joe: Former SR 30A [1] CR 30B: Indian Pass Road CR 30 in Indian Pass: Indian Pass Campground east-southeast of Indian Pass: Former SR 30B [1] CR 71A: Chemical Road Dead end next to General Chemical's Port St. Joe Works plant east of Port St. Joe: SR 71 / Avenue A east of Port St. Joe: Former SR 71A [1] CR 381: Willis Landing Road
Indian Pass is a small area on the south coast of Gulf County, Florida, 8 miles south of Port St. Joe. It promotes itself as an uncrowded haven for sports fishermen and water enthusiasts, and for dining featuring locally caught oysters. A ferry provides access to a wildlife sanctuary on St Vincent Island. Indian Pass is commonly thought of as ...
Cape San Blas Light. Port St. Joe is located in southern Gulf County at (29.807968, –85.297684), [8] within the Florida Panhandle and along the Emerald According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.1 square miles (31.3 km 2), of which 9.5 square miles (24.5 km 2) is land and 2.6 square miles (6.8 km 2), or 21.86%, is water.
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A new lighthouse, the St. Joseph Light Range Station, was constructed in 1902 on the mainland across from St. Joseph Point, at Beacon Hill. [4] A new town, Port St. Joe, was founded a couple of miles north of the site of the old town of St. Joseph around 1910, when the Apalachicola Northern Railroad built a branch line to the Bay. [5]
Map of the southern part of Calhoun County, Florida in 1842. This part of Calhoun County later became Gulf County. The map shows the towns of Apalachicola (in Franklin County) and St. Joseph (in Calhoun County), and the rail lines of the Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Railroad, running from St. Joseph to Lake Wimico (which is unlabeled) and from St. Joseph to the Apalachicola River at Iola,
Gulf County, created in 1925, was named for the Gulf of Mexico. Wewahitchka was its first county seat and the 1927 Gulf County Courthouse is still in existence. In 1965 the county seat was moved to Port Saint Joe, which under its original name Saint Joseph, had been the site of Florida's first Constitutional Convention in 1838.
The St. Joseph Peninsula extends northward from the west end of Cape San Blas. It is approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-southwest of the town of Port St. Joe , located at coordinates 29°39′49″N 85°21′20″W / 29.66361°N 85.35556°W / 29.66361; -85.