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Everglades National Park is a national park of the United States that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year. [5]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Everglades National Park, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Flamingo is the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.Flamingo is one of the two end points of the 99-mile (159-km) Wilderness Waterway (with another end point at Gulf Coast Visitor Center in the Everglades City), and the southern end of the only road (running 39.3 miles (63.2 km) [1]) through the park from Florida City.
In Everglades National Park alone, agents removed more than 2,000 Burmese pythons from the park as of 2017. [168] Federal authorities banned four species of exotic snakes, including the Burmese python, in 2012. [169] The pythons are believed to be responsible for drastic decreases in the populations of some mammals within the park. [170]
The Nike Missile Site HM-69 (also known as Hole in the Donut or Everglades Nike Site or Missile Base) is a former Nike-Hercules missile base, now listed as a historic site west of Homestead, Florida, United States. It is located on Long Pine Key Road in the Everglades National Park.
It is currently part of Everglades National Park. Shark Valley empties into Shark River in the Ten Thousand Islands of Monroe County. [1] Shark Valley characteristically includes sawgrass prairie that floods during the rainy season, hence the name "river of grass"—Pa-Hay-Okee, from the Mikasuki language—for such marshes in the Everglades. [2]
National Register of Historic Places listings in Everglades National Park — south Florida. Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Everglades National Park" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The road had reached as far as Paradise Key, now the Royal Palm area of the Everglades National Park, [7] when it was dedicated with the Royal Palm State Park on November 23, 1916, as the Ingraham Highway, and named for James E. Ingraham, the president of the Model Land Company and vice-president of the associated Florida East Coast Railway. [8]