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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.
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 Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) was a short-line railroad which operated in the Florida Panhandle of the United States. It owned and operated a 96-mile (154 km) between Port Saint Joe, Florida, and Chattahoochee, Florida, with a short spur to Apalachicola, Florida.
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.
White City is an unincorporated community in Gulf County, [2] Florida, United States. White City is located on State Road 71 , 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Port St. Joe . Its geographical coordinates are 29.8840955, -85.2199164.
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 .