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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.
Lake Okeechobee and the Okeechobee Waterway Project is part of the complex water-management system known as the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project.The projects cover 16,000 square miles (41,000 km 2) starting just south of Orlando and extending southward through the Kissimmee River Basin to the Everglades National Park to Florida Bay.
A sign advertising the completion of the Herbert Hoover Dike, which mentions the 1926 and 1928 hurricanes View NNE from atop the Herbert Hoover Dike and its access roads, as seen from the Canal Point Recreation Area in Canal Point, FL. The Herbert Hoover Dike is a dike around the waters of Lake Okeechobee in Florida.
Thirty-three hundred cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.1 billion gallons of water from Lake Okeechobee is discharged through the St. Lucie Lock and Dam on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Martin County.
Pahokee is a city located on the shore of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 5,524 in the 2020 census. [7] According to the 2020 U.S. Census, 57% of the residents of Pahokee were African American and 33% were Hispanic or Latino. [8]
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 ...
The largest freshwater lake in Florida, Lake Okeechobee offers plenty of fishing, boating and birdwatching of course. But it also features the 110-mile Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail for hiking ...
Table displaying the Okeechobean Sea and its relation to geologic time and North American Land Mammal Ages.Dry periods or marine regressive periods are tan in color. The Okeechobean Sea was a Cenozoic eutropical subsea, which along with the Choctaw Sea, occupied the eastern Gulf of Mexico basin system bounding Florida.