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| Crawfordville | St. Marks | Wakulla Springs |
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Location: Northwest Florida in the
Panhandle bordering the Gulf of Mexico and Franklin, Liberty, Leon
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Population: 22,863 (Census 2000) Area: 735.74 Square Miles Land Area: 606.66 Square Miles Water Area: 129.08 Square Miles County Seat: Crawfordville |
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Average temperature: January - 54.2 degrees, August - 81.4 degrees.
Average rainfall: 54.03
History: Wakulla County was established from a portion of Leon County in 1843. Wakulla, also the name of an enormous spring and river in the county, is probably of Indian derivation. It may contain the word kala, meaning "spring of water" in some Indian dialects or wahkola, meaning "loon" in Hitchiti, a language of the Creek Indians.
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