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Florida Counties

In 1821, there were only two Counties in Florida: Escambia to the west and St. Johns to the east. From these two Counties were formed 67 today.In 1968, the electors of Florida granted local voters the power to adopt charters to govern their counties. Charters are formal written documents that confer powers, duties, or privileges on the county. To date, there are 19 charter Counties in Florida. Collectively these Counties are home to more than 75 percent of Florida's residents.

Orange County, Florida

Orange County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Orlando
Year Organized: 1824
Square Miles: 908

Court House:

P.O. Box 1393
County Courthouse
Orlando, FL 32802-1393

Etymology - Origin of County Name

(was Mosquito, 1824-1845) Oranges.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

In 1821, there were two counties that formed Florida: Escambia to the west and St. Johns to the east. In 1824, the area to the south of St. Johns County became Mosquito County, and Enterprise was named the County Seat. This massive county took up much of Central Florida. Mosquito County was renamed Orange County in 1845 when Florida became a state. Several counties, such as Osceola and Seminole County, were carved out of Orange County.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,004 square miles (2,601 km²), of which, 907 square miles (2,350 km²) of it is land and 97 square miles (251 km²) of it (9.63%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Northeast: Volusia County; Seminole County
Southeast: Brevard County; Osceola County
Southwest: Polk County
Northwest: Lake County

Cities and Towns:

- Apopka	city	Incorporated Area
- Bay Lake	city	Incorporated Area
- Belle Isle	city	Incorporated Area
- Eatonville	town	Incorporated Area
- Edgewood	city	Incorporated Area
- Lake Buena Vista	city	Incorporated Area
- Maitland	city	Incorporated Area
- Oakland	city	Incorporated Area
- Ocoee	city	Incorporated Area
- Orlando (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Windermere	town	Incorporated Area
- Winter Garden	city	Incorporated Area
- Winter Park	city	Incorporated Area

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."