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Satellite image of Duck Key and Toms Harbor Keys. Duck Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, on an island of the same name in the middle Florida Keys. The CDP also includes the neighboring island of Conch Key. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 727, [2] up from ...
The key was the site of a salt manufacturing operation in the 1820s & 1830s. Occupation of the island ceased after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and did not resume until the key was connected to the highway by a causeway in 1953. J.W. Norie, in his Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Florida, The Bahama Bank & Islands (1828) states: "Duck Key ...
Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004. Airport Master Record (FAA Form 5010) Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, also available as a printable form ; Florida Keys Marathon Airport (page at Monroe County tourism site)
The 2.2-mile (3.5 km) section to Pigeon Key, used as a fishing pier and long open to motorized vehicles to give access to the key, was closed to motorized traffic in 2008 after the unsupported sections began to sag. [3] In 2014, the Florida Department of Transportation approved a $77 million plan to restore the old bridge. [2]
The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is a U.S. National Marine Sanctuary in the Florida Keys.It includes the Florida Reef, the only barrier coral reef in North America [1] and the third-largest coral barrier reef in the world.
Chart of Florida Bay showing water depths and the shoals and islands that divide it into basins or lakes. Encompassing roughly one-third of Everglades National Park, [1] Florida Bay is variously stated to be 800 square miles (2,100 km 2), [2] or 850 square miles (2,200 km 2), [3] or 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). [4]
After Key Vaca, the road becomes two-lane once more and runs through Fat Deer Key, where it forms the northern boundary of the city of Key Colony Beach. [14] It then continues wholly in Marathon through Long Point Key, Crawl Key, and Grassy Key. [15] The road then crosses to Little Conch Key and then Conch Key, both part of the Duck Key district.
The 8 + 1 ⁄ 2-foot-tall (2.6 m) statue of Jesus Christ weighs 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) and stands in nearly 25 feet (7.6 m) of water. It is a popular site for scuba divers and snorkelers. It is a popular site for scuba divers and snorkelers.