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Wakulla County, FloridaWakulla County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameThe name Wakulla is corrupted from Guacara. Guacara is a Spanish phonetic spelling of an original Indian name,
and Wakulla is a Muskhogean pronunciation of Guacara. The Spanish Gua is the equivalent of the Creek wa, and as the
Creek alphabet does not exhibit an "R" sound, the second element cara would have been pronounced kala by the Creeks.
The Creek voiceless "L" is always substituted for the Spanish "R". Thus the word Guacara was pronounced Wakala by
the Seminoles who are Muskhogean in their origin and language. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryWakulla County was created in 1843. It may (although this is disputed) be named for the Timucuan Indian word for
"spring of water" or "mysterious water." This is in reference to Wakulla County's greatest natural attraction, Wakulla
Springs, which is one of the world's largest freshwater springs, both in terms of depth and water flow. In 1974, the
water flow was measured at 1.23 billion gallons per day—the greatest recorded flow ever for a single spring. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 736 square miles (1,906 kmē), of which, 607
square miles (1,571 kmē) of it is land and 129 square miles (334 kmē) of it (17.54%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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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." |
