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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]
Pensacola City Planning Department (1963), Existing Land Use Study, Pensacola, Florida, archived from the original on 2017-04-28 – via University of North Florida; Eisterhold, John A. "Lumber and Trade in Pensacola and West Florida: 1800-1860," Florida Historical Quarterly (1973) 51#3 pp 267–280.
This is a list of neighborhoods and districts in Pensacola, Florida. Pensacola is divided into 16 separate districts and almost 100 separate neighborhoods.
Pensacola Beach is an unincorporated community located on Santa Rosa Island, a barrier island, in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is situated south of Pensacola (and Gulf Breeze connected via bridges spanning to the Fairpoint Peninsula and then to the island) in the Gulf of Mexico .
The Pensacola Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area was first defined in 1958, with Pensacola as the principal city, and included Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. The MSA was renamed Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent MSA in 2003, with the unincorporated census-designated places Ferry Pass and Brent added as principal cities. [ 2 ]
Escambia County is the westernmost and oldest county in the U.S. state of Florida.As of the 2020 census, the population was 321,905. [1] The county seat and largest city is Pensacola. [2]
Historic Pensacola (located within the Pensacola Historic District) is a collection of 28 historical buildings and museums managed by the University of West Florida's Historic Trust. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Historic Pensacola is located in downtown Pensacola , Florida, situated between Plaza Ferdinand VII and Seville Square.
In the defense of Pensacola Bay, Fort McRee was accompanied by Fort Pickens, located across Pensacola Pass on Santa Rosa Island, and Fort Barrancas, located across Pensacola Bay on the grounds of what is now Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. [1] [2] Fort Pickens was the largest of these. Very little remains of Fort McRee today.