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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.

Pasco County, Florida

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

County Seat: Dade City
Year Organized: 1887
Square Miles: 745

Court House:

7530 Little Road
County Courthouse
New Port Richey, FL 34654-5598

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Samuel Pasco, US Senator, 1887-1899.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Pasco County was created in 1887 from the southern part of Hernando County. It was named for Samuel Pasco, who served in the Confederate Army, the state legislature and in the United States Senate from 1887 to 1899. The earliest towns were Anclote, Blanton, Dade City, Earnestville, Fort Dade, Macon (Trilby), Lacoochee and San Antonio.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 868 square miles (2,248 km²), of which, 745 square miles (1,929 km²) of it is land and 123 square miles (319 km²) of it (14.18%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Hernando County
Northeast: Sumter County
Southeast: Polk County
South: Hillsborough County
Southwest: Pinellas County
West: Gulf of Mexico

Cities and Towns:

- Brooksville	city	Incorporated Area
- Dade City (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- New Port Richey	city	Incorporated Area
- Port Richey	city	Incorporated Area
- San Antonio	city	Incorporated Area
- St. Leo	town	Incorporated Area
- Tarpon Springs	city	Incorporated Area
- Weeki Wachee	city	Incorporated Area
- Zephyrhills	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."