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The Punta Gorda Residential District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on January 7, 1991) located in Punta Gorda, Florida. [1] The district is bounded by West Retta Esplanade, Berry Street, West Virginia Avenue and Taylor Street.
Punta Gorda (/ ˌ p ʌ n t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ə /; English: Fat Point), [5] a city located in Southwest Florida, is the county seat of Charlotte County, Florida, United States. [6] As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 19,471, up from 16,641 at the 2010 census.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [3] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Acline was an acronym for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the company that built the railroad from Punta Gorda south (which is now the Seminole Gulf Railway). [ 20 ] Jones Loop was heavily rebuilt east of Taylor Road in 1967, and it was designated as SR 768 until the 1980s when it was relinquished to county control.
U.S. Route 41, the Tamiami Trail, crosses the Peace River between Charlotte Harbor and Punta Gorda via the Barron Collier Bridge (northbound) and the Gilchrist Bridge (southbound). According to the United States Census Bureau , the Charlotte Harbor CDP has a total area of 5.0 square miles (13.0 km 2 ), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2 ) is ...
U.S. Highway 17 (US 17) in Florida is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs 317 miles (510 km) from the Punta Gorda, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area northeast to the Jacksonville metropolitan area.
Solana is located on the eastern edge of Punta Gorda at (26.940277, -82.029368 It is bordered to the east by Interstate 75, with access from Exit 164 (U.S. Route 17).Via I-75 it is 26 miles (42 km) north of the Fort Myers area and 30 miles (48 km) southwest of the outskirts of Venice.
Punta Gorda, the Charlotte County seat, is 6 miles (10 km) to the southwest on the south side of the Peace River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Harbour Heights CDP has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.3 km 2), of which 2.2 square miles (5.6 km 2) is land and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km 2), or 11.19%, is water. [5]