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At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
The location of the state of Florida in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Florida: Florida – third most populous and the southeasternmost of the 50 states of the United States of America. Florida lies between the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Florida (/ ˈ f l ɒr ɪ d ə / ⓘ FLORR-ih-də; Spanish: [floˈɾiða]) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south.
St. Andrew's Bay, the central geographic feature of the county: 249.70 190,769: 764 sq mi (1,979 km 2) Bradford County: 007: Starke: 1858: Columbia named New River until 1861: Richard Bradford, the first officer from Florida to die in the Civil War; he was killed during the Battle of Santa Rosa Island: 95.08 27,858: 293 sq mi (759 km 2) Brevard ...
As North America separated from Africa a small portion of the African Plate detached and was carried away with the North American Plate. This provided some of the foundation upon which Florida now rests. [6] The emergent portion of the platform was created during the Eocene to Oligocene as the Gulf Trough filled with silts, clays, and sands.