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Summerfield is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida, United States. It is located near the intersection of US 301 and County Road 475A . The community is part of the Ocala Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Since US 301 is a popular short cut between Northeastern Florida and the Gulf Coast region, a number of towns along the road have been notorious speed traps. The speed limit drops from 65 mph to 30 mph in a matter of a few hundred feet. Many have accused the police in Waldo, Starke, Lawtey, and others of giving tickets simply to raise money.
Area [11] [8] Map Alachua County: 001: Gainesville: 1824: Duval and St. Johns: From a Seminole-Creek word meaning "jug", apparently in reference to the sinkholes common in the area [12] 327.22 285,994: 874 sq mi (2,264 km 2) Baker County: 003: Macclenny: 1861: New River: James McNair Baker (1821–1892), a Confederate senator and later a judge ...
The area had many plantations and more than half of the population was enslaved African Americans. Several Confederate Army units were organized by plantation owners, including the Marion Rifle Guards, organized May 2, 1861, by Captain W.L. Fletcher, county treasurer. It served as part of the Fourth Florida Infantry under Col. Edward Hopkins.
Map of the counties in north central Florida. North central Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida which comprises the north-central part of the state and encompasses the north Florida counties of Alachua, Marion, Putnam, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, and Union. [1]
Riverview is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is located south of Brandon. The population was 107,396 in the 2020 census, [2] up from 71,050 in the 2010 census. Many of Tampa Bay's radio and television stations broadcast from an antenna farm in
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.
The area was part of the chiefdom of the Uzita at the time of the Hernando de Soto expedition in 1539. The community was founded August 7, 1908, on the shores of the Little Manatee River . It was developed by Dr. George McAnelly Miller, an attorney and professor at Ruskin College in Trenton, Missouri , and Addie Dickman Miller .