Communities of Orlando & Central Fl
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With its real estate at the doorstep to WALT DISNEY WORLD® Resort and easy access to Universal Orlandosm, SeaWorld® Orlando, Cypress Gardens, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and the spring training facility for the Houston Astos among many others, Osceola County is a perfect location to call home. Call Central Florida Realtors John Hambrick or Angela Chapman for real estate information on Lake County, Osceola County, Orange County, Seminole County, Polk County, Brevard County and Volusia County. John and Angela can help you with investment, relocation or retirement communities, or with 1031 tax exchange information, or they can help you sell your home. Osceola County is a 1,506 square mile area that serves as the south/central boundary of the Central Florida Region and the Greater Metropolitan Area. |
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History
On the 21 Jul 1821 there were two counties formed in Florida - Escambia to the west and St Johns County to the east. From these two counties were formed over sixty counties. in 1824 From St Johns county the area to the south became Mosquito County and Enterprise was the county seat. The name was changed to Orange county in 1845 when Florida became a state. A year before in 1844 Brevard County was carved out from Mosquito County. Osceola County was formed on May 12, 1887 with a population of 815 from real estate from Brevard and Orange counties by an act of Legislature sponsored by Riley Johnson who represented Brevard County, but lived in Kissimmee City. At that time Osceola reached all the way down to Lake Okeechobee until 1917. Senator J. Milton Bryan of Orange County is credited with having named Osceola County after the famed Indian chief. |
The City of Kissimmee, the County Seat, is 18 miles due south of Orlando.
Osceola’s only other incorporated City, St. Cloud, is 9 miles east of Kissimmee,
and approximately 45 miles west of the City of Melbourne on the Atlantic Coast.
Beyond this northwest quadrant and to the south and east with the exception of a
few very small, rural towns, like Holopaw, Kenansville, and Yeehaw Junction,
ranch lands and undeveloped prairie, woods and marsh dominate the County. These
large regions include the Mormon Church owned Desert Ranches and a number of
other large, privately operated ranch and agricultural lands. Also included are
the State of Florida's wildlife management areas and preserves at Bull Creek,
Prairie Lakes, and the Three Lakes. As the "headwaters" of the South Florida
Water Management District and the Lake Okeechobee/Florida everglades ecosystem,
Osceola County is bounded by the Kissimmee River, is crossed by a number of
partially accessible creeks, and is home to the Kissimmee Chain-of-Lakes, that
includes some of the State’s largest and finest fishing and recreational
attractions.
An urban and urbanizing area in the northwest quadrant of the County dominates
Osceola County's geography. This area is adjoining to Polk County and Orange County and
includes most of Osceola's population. It includes the incorporated areas of
Kissimmee and St. Cloud, the unincorporated communities of Poinciana and
Buenaventura Lakes, and unincorporated subdivisions ranging from Narcoossee in
the northeast to Campbell City and Intercession City in the southwest to Deer
Run and the St. Cloud Manor areas in the south.
| Osceola
County, located in the high-growth Central Florida region, provides a
distinctive blend of rural life and all the benefits of its proximity to
a major metropolitan area.
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Population
1997
143,828 |
