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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.
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]
Description: This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Gulf County, Florida, highlighting Port St. Joe in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park is a Florida State Park on the St. Joseph Peninsula near Port St. Joe . It is located off U.S. 98 .
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.
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 SR 71 in Gaskins Still: Willis Landing southeast of Dalkeith: Former SR 381 [1] CR 381A: Lower Dalkeith Road SR 71 southwest of Dalkeith: CR 381 in Dalkeith: Former SR 381A [1 ...
St. Joseph was a boomtown founded in 1835 on the shores of St. Joseph Bay that briefly became the largest community in Florida before being abandoned after less than eight years. A yellow fever epidemic in 1841 ended its brief period of prosperity and the abandoned remnants of the town were destroyed by a storm surge in 1844.
The St. Joseph Point Light was a lighthouse on the mainland north of present-day Port St. Joe, Florida, across the entrance to St. Joseph Bay from St. Joseph Point. St. St. Joseph Bay is enclosed by St. Joseph Peninsula , which runs west some three miles (5 km) from the mainland to Cape San Blas , and then northerly 15 miles (24 km) to St ...