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Image of the Peace River. The Peace River is a river in the southwestern part of the Florida peninsula, in the U.S.A. [1] It originates at the juncture of Saddle Creek and Peace Creek northeast of Bartow in Polk County and flows south through Fort Meade (Polk County) Hardee County to Arcadia in DeSoto County and then southwest into the Charlotte Harbor estuary at Punta Gorda in Charlotte County.
Area code 904 was created in an area code split of area code 305 in 1965. In 2024, the numbering plan received a second area code, 324 , through the creation of an overlay complex to mitigate central office code exhaustion and provide additional telephone numbers in the area.
Bartow is located on the South Central Florida Ridge, as classified by the USDA. [46] Most soils in the Bartow area are sandy; other soils have sandy surface layers and clay subsoils, and the eastern outskirts of town have a clay-rich floodplain through which the Peace River flows. Drainage outside of the floodplain ranges from good to ...
The Armed Occupation Act of 1842 prohibited settlement near the Peace River as that was considered Seminole land; however cattlemen eventually moved in from Tampa Bay and into the area surrounding the Peace River anyway. [4] In 1851, the settlement of Fort Blount was founded by Redding Blount just west of current downtown Bartow. [8]
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Streamflow changes along upper Peace River. There is a project to raise the level of Lake Hancock and start a larger flow towards Peace River. [22] To restore Kissengen Spring, the aquifer must be recharged with enough water to recreate the original spring pressure. [citation needed] Peace River will have to be restored to the year round ...
[3] [4] At 4,573 acres (18.51 km 2), it is one of the largest lakes in Polk County; the center of the cities of Bartow, Lakeland, and Winter Haven roughly form an equilateral triangle with sides of 12 miles (19 km) and Lake Hancock forms over 25% of that triangle. The lake is shallow, with an average depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) and a maximum depth ...
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