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Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
Map of the Florida Heartland. The Florida Heartland (also known as South Central Florida) is a region of Florida located to the north and west of Lake Okeechobee, composed of six inland, predominantly rural counties—DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, and Okeechobee.
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz. The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / OH-kee-CHOH-bee [6]) is a city in and the county seat of Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. [7] As of the 2020 US census, the city's population was 5,254. The Lake Okeechobee area was severely damaged in the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, the first recorded Category 5 hurricane in the North ...
South Bay is located at (26.666487, –80.718985), [8] near the southern bank of Lake Okeechobee According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km 2 ), including 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2 ) of land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2 ) of (26.95%) water.
The community lies along the north side of Lake Okeechobee.The area is served by US routes 98 and 441 and state routes 700 and 15. [5]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km 2), of which 4.0 square miles (10 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) (3.61%) is water.
Robert Upthegrove, later one of the inaugural Okeechobee County commissioners, settled in the area circa 1912. His son, Clarence Dewitt Upthegrove (Dewitt), at one time worked for Thomas Edison in Fort Myers, and later owned a heavy equipment operation that helped build the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee and was the Supervisor of ...
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