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Silver Springs is in central Marion County and is bordered to the southwest by the city of Ocala, the county seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Silver Springs CDP has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16 km 2 ), of which 0.03 square miles (0.08 km 2 ), or 0.50%, are water. [ 1 ]
The park contains Silver Springs, Florida's first tourist attraction. The Silver Springs attraction dates to the 1870s. In 1985, the state purchased the land surrounding Silver Springs to spare it from development, creating the Silver River State Park. In 1993, the state acquired Silver Springs, as well, though it continued to be operated ...
State Road 40 (SR 40) is a 91.8-mile-long (147.7 km) east–west highway across northern and east-central Florida, running from U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) in Rainbow Lakes Estates eastward through Ocala over the Ocklawaha River and through the heart of the Ocala National Forest to SR A1A in Ormond Beach. Names of the road include Silver Springs ...
The springs were the first tourist attraction in Florida. [3] In the 1860s, Samuel O. Howse bought the 242 acres [3] surrounding the headwaters of the Silver River.Several years after the American Civil War, the springs began to attract tourists from the North via steamboats up the Silver River. [4]
Silver Springs Shores is located at (29.101279, -82.012439 It is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the center of Ocala, the county seat.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 15.1 square miles (39 km 2), of which 14.9 square miles (39 km 2) are land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 1.42%, are water.
The Silver River drains Silver Springs, located in the Silver Springs State Park in Silver Springs, Florida approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Ocala, Florida.The river flows east from the springs, being joined by an unnamed tributary creek from the north just east of the park, for approximately 5.4 miles (8.7 km) before joining the Ocklawaha River just south of the Bert Dosh Memorial Bridge.
State Road 492 (SR 492) is a short state road in Ocala, Florida.It is an east-west road that runs 3.7 miles (6.0 km), [1] is four lanes wide with provisions for center turn lanes where necessary, and serves as a connecting route between U.S. Route 27 (US 27) and eastern Ocala, Silver Springs, and the Ocala National Forest.
Silver Springs Shores East is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Marion County, Florida, United States. It is bordered to the west by Ocklawaha and is 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Ocala, the Marion county seat. Silver Springs Shores East was first listed as a CDP for the 2020 census, at which time it had a population of 1,210. [3]