Miccosukee, Florida

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Miccosukee
Census-Designated Place
Miccosukee Post Office.JPG
Post office
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Coordinates: 30°35′41″N84°02′29″W / 30.59472°N 84.04139°W / 30.59472; -84.04139
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
StateFlag of Florida.svg  Florida
County Leon County
Elevation
[1]
217 ft (66 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total383
ZIP code
32309 [2]
Area code 850
GNIS feature ID2805179 [1]

Miccosukee is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Leon County, Florida, United States. The population was 383 at the 2020 census. [3] It is part of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located at the junction of County Road 59 (Veterans Memorial Drive) and County Road 151 (Moccasin Gap Road). Miccosukee was a major center of the Miccosukee tribe, one of the tribes of the developing Seminole nation, during the 18th century.

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Geography

Miccosukee, like other unincorporated areas in northern Leon County, is an area of rolling hills dotted with ponds and lakes. The large, swampy Lake Miccosukee borders the eastern edge of the community.

History

Settlement of Miccosukee, Leon County, Florida. Miccosukee FL.png
Settlement of Miccosukee, Leon County, Florida.

The town of Miccosukee or Mikasuki was settled by members of the Miccosukee tribe, a group of Creek origin who had settled in Florida and become part of the developing Seminole nation. The Miccosukee often fought armed battles with white settlers.[citation needed] It was mapped by the British in 1778 and originally called Mikasuki with 60 homes, 28 families, and a town square. Some 70 gunmen protected the town.[citation needed] It was the capital of the short-lived State of Muskogee.

At the time he invaded Spanish Florida in 1818, during the First Seminole War, "Andrew Jackson and his men were stunned by the sheer size of the Miccosukee town. Having been occupied since before the American Revolution, it was a town of long-standing permanence." Jackson burned over 300 homes before departing on April 5, 1818. [4] : 91–92  Whites estimated there were up to 500 warriors, and "the town was the largest in Florida at the time". [5] : 183 

In 1831, a U.S. Post Office was built along with schools, churches, and stores. Eventually the area became a center of cotton plantations, as was most of Leon County. Prior to the Civil War Miccosukee had three cotton plantations nearby, Miccosukee Plantation, Ingleside Plantation and Blakely Plantation.

After the Civil War, the area reverted to farms and by 1887, the Florida Central Railroad served Miccosukee. During the 1890s, wealthy industrialists bought large tracts of land for quail hunting plantations or estates removing thousands of acres of land from agricultural production. Miccosukee thrived until the boll weevil infestation of 1918. The Great Depression (1929-1935) destroyed Leon County's agriculture[ citation needed ] and the railroad pulled out in the mid-1940s.

Demographics

2020 census

Miccosukee racial composition [6]
(NH = Non-Hispanic) [lower-alpha 1]
RaceNumberPercentage
White (NH)21054.83%
Black or African American (NH)14938.9%
Asian (NH)30.78%
Some Other Race (NH)20.52%
Mixed/Multi-Racial (NH)153.92%
Hispanic or Latino 41.04%
Total383

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 383 people, 120 households, and 70 families residing in the CDP.

Historical places

Civil War history

During the Civil War, soldiers from Miccosukee enlisted in Company K, 5th Florida Infantry and Company B, 1st Florida Cavalry. The following soldiers are interred at Runners Cemetery[ where? ] and other locations.

Political

Concord School on Cromartie Road. Concord Elementary School, Miccosukee.JPG
Concord School on Cromartie Road.
Miccosukee Community Center Miccosukee Community Center driveway.JPG
Miccosukee Community Center
Miccosukee Governmental Representation
PositionNameParty
County Commission At-LargeCarolyn CummingsDemocrat
County Commission At-Large Nick Maddox Democrat
Commissioner Dist. 4 Brian Welch Democrat
U.S. HouseNeal DunnRepublican
Florida HouseAlison TantDemocrat
Miccosukee Volunteer Fire Department on Cromartie Road. Miccosukee Volunteer Fire Station road sign.JPG
Miccosukee Volunteer Fire Department on Cromartie Road.

Community facilities

Education

All of the county is in the Leon County School District. [12]

Groups and organizations

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Miccosukee, Florida
  2. ↑ "Miccosukee FL ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  4. ↑ Cox, Dale (2013). Brininstool, Savannah (ed.). Milly Francis. The Life & Times of the Creek Pocahontas. Old Kitchen Books. ISBN   9780615894058.
  5. ↑ Cox, Dale (2016). Fort Scott, Fort Hughes & Camp Recovery : three 19th century military sites in Southwest Georgia. Old Kitchen Books.
  6. ↑ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  7. ↑ https://www.census.gov/ [ not specific enough to verify ]
  8. ↑ "About the Hispanic Population and its Origin". www.census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  9. ↑ School history
  10. ↑ Park
  11. ↑ Leon County parks
  12. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Leon County, FL" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved July 31, 2022. - Text list
  1. ↑ Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. [7] [8]
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