Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Location of Florida's Emerald Coast Beach in Destin. Emerald Coast, a term coined in 1983, [4] refers in general to the beaches and coastal resorts from Pensacola to Port St. Joe, [Emerald_Coast 1] but is sometimes used to refer, by extension, to the panhandle as a whole, especially west of the Apalachicola.
The Florida panhandle was mostly wilderness before 1814. Its population at the time is unknown, except for isolated reports. Its population at the time is unknown, except for isolated reports. As in the rest of Florida, there were many Native American refugees from the United States, who merged into a new ethnicity, Seminoles .
This map shows the Big Bend Coast of Florida in blue, and the Big Bend region in red. The Big Bend of Florida, United States, is an informally named geographic region of North Florida where the Florida Panhandle transitions to the Florida Peninsula south and east of Tallahassee (the area's principal city). [1]
Located in what is known as the Florida Panhandle, Madison County was created in 1827. [3] It was named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America, who served from 1809 to 1817. [4] It was developed as part of the plantation belt, with cotton cultivated and processed by enslaved African Americans. [5]
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.
St. George Island is an island and Census-designated place (CDP) off the Florida Panhandle in the northern Gulf of Mexico. It is in Franklin County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 990. [4]
Franklin County is a county along the Gulf of Mexico in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida.As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,451, [1] making it the third-least populous county in Florida.
It is located approximately six miles west of Monticello, a half mile south of U.S. 90, in northwestern Florida. The address is 4500 Sunray Road South. Two related sites in the panhandle are from the later Fort Walton Culture (1100-1550 CE): Fort Walton Mound, a National Historic Landmark; and the Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park.