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Cross Creek (Florida)
Cross Creek is a natural waterway in Florida connecting Lochloosa Lake to Orange Lake, in southeastern Alachua County. It is long, and carries the outflow from Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake. It is normally navigable by small boats, but has completely dried up in droughts. The creek has been designated an Outstanding Florida Water. - Retrieved from Internet Archive 8 January 2011 County Road 325 crosses the creek. Cross Creek gives its name to the community of Cross Creek, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Creek (Florida)
Cross Creek is a natural waterway in Florida connecting Lochloosa Lake to Orange Lake, in southeastern Alachua County. It is long, and carries the outflow from Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake. It is normally navigable by small boats, but has completely dried up in droughts. The creek has been designated an Outstanding Florida Water. - Retrieved from Internet Archive 8 January 2011 County Road 325 crosses the creek. Cross Creek gives its name to the community of Cross Creek, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba; it is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Spanning , Florida ranks 22nd in area among the 50 states, and with a population of over 21 million, it is the third-most populous. The state capital is Tallahassee, and the most populous city is Jacksonville. The Miami metropolitan area, with a population of almost 6.2 million, is the most populous urban area in Florida and the ninth-most populous in the United States; other urban conurbations with over one million people are Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Jacksonville. Various Native American groups have inhabited Florida for at least 14,000 years. In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León became the first k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lochloosa Lake
Lochloosa Lake is a lake about in area in Alachua County, Florida, about south of Hawthorne, and is up to deep. It is drained by Cross Creek into Orange Lake. It is largely surrounded by the Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area, and is a Fish Management Area. Lochloosa Creek is its largest tributary. The lake is noted for bass fishing , the lake has not returned to levels seen before a drought in 2012. The lake has become choked with weeds such as hydrilla ''Hydrilla'' (waterthyme) is a genus of aquatic plant Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater). They are also referred to as hydrophytes or macrophytes to distinguish them from .... The water level in the lake varies by up to . The variation in water level is healthy for the lake, and the Orange Creek Basin Advisory Council decided to not try to force a stable water level. References External linksLochloosa Lake County Park (Alachua County Government) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Lake (Florida)
Orange Lake is in Alachua County, Florida, about south of Hawthorne. It has an area of about , and is part of the Orange Creek Basin, which is in turn part of the Oklawaha River watershed. Cross Creek flows into it from Lochloosa Lake, and Orange Creek drains it into the Rodman Reservoir. Orange Lake also receives water from Newnans Lake that has been diverted from its historic destination of Paynes Prairie. Orange Lake is noted for fishing, especially bass, with many fishing camps on its shores. The lake also has many natural floating islands, which have an "unusually high diversity", especially of amphibians. The Timucua village of Potano was located along the western shore of Orange Lake in 1539, when it was visited by the Hernando de Soto expedition. The town of Potano was moved to a site northwest of present-day Gainesville, Florida in 1584 after being burned by the Spanish. The Spanish Mission of San Buenaventura de Potano San Buenaventura de Potano was a Spanish mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alachua County, Florida
Alachua County ( ) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University of Florida since 1906, when the campus opened with 106 students. Alachua County is part of the Gainesville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is known for its diverse culture, local music, and artisans. Much of its economy revolves around the university, which had nearly 55,000 students in the fall of 2016. History Early history The first people known to have entered the area of Alachua County were Paleo-Indians, who left artifacts in the Santa Fe River basin before 8000 BCE. Artifacts from the Archaic period (8000 - 2000 BCE) have been found at several sites in Alachua County. Permanent settlements appeared in what is now Alachua County around 100 CE, as people of the wide-ranging Deptford culture developed the local Cades Pond culture. The Cades Pond culture gave way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outstanding Florida Water
Outstanding Florida Waters are rivers, lakes and other water features designated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) under authority of Section 403.061 (27), Florida Statutes as "worthy of special protection because of their natural attributes." Outstanding Florida Waters have special restrictions on any new activities that would lower water quality or otherwise degrade the body of water. The Outstanding Florida Water designation has been applied to all bodies of water in national parks, national wildlife refuges, national seashores, national preserves, national marine sanctuaries and estuarine research reserves, state parks and recreation areas, state preserves and reserves, state ornamental gardens and botanical sites, environmentally endangered lands programs, conservation and recreation lands programs, Save Our Coast program acquisitions, state aquatic preserves, scenic and wild rivers (both national and state), and certain waters in national forests. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of County Roads In Alachua County, Florida
The following is a list of county roads in Alachua County, Florida. All county roads are maintained by the county in which they reside, however not all of them are marked with standard MUTCD approved county road shields. List of County Roads in Alachua County, Florida References General Highway Map; Alachua County, Florida (Florida Department of Transportation) accessed January 2014 General Highway Map of Alachua County, Florida (March 2022) accessed 28 November 2022 {{FLCR [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Creek, Florida
Cross Creek is an unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida, United States. It is located on Cross Creek, a short stream connecting Orange and Lochloosa lakes. Geography Cross Creek is located at . The community is situated in the extreme southeastern corner of Alachua County and is approximately 20 miles southeast of the county seat, Gainesville, and 24 miles north of Ocala in Marion County. It is bisected by a navigable waterway, Cross Creek, which connects the two large lakes of Orange and Lochloosa, thus the community is on a narrow isthmus between these two water bodies. History Cross Creek is well known as the home of the American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She wrote four of her books while actually living there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ''The Yearling'', which was adapted as the 1946 film of the same name, and her memoir, ''Cross Creek'', which was adapted as the 1983 film. Cross Creek was settled in the 19th century. Rawlings house may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) accessed December 8, 2014. was an who lived in rural and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, '''', about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a for fiction in 1939 and was later made into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Creek (book)
Cross Creek may refer to: Media *Cross Creek (book), ''Cross Creek'' (book), a 1942 memoir by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings *Cross Creek (film), ''Cross Creek'' (film), a 1983 film starring Mary Steenburgen Places in the United States *Cross Creek (Florida), a waterway connecting Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake in southeastern Alachua County **Cross Creek, Florida, a community centered on the Cross Creek waterway *Cross Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio *Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania *Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge in Stewart County, Tennessee *Cross Creek Wildlife Management Area, in Brooke County, West Virginia Other *Cross Creek Cemetery, a cemetery in Fayetteville, North Carolina *Cross Creek High School, located in South Augusta, Georgia *Cross Creek Mall, a shopping mall in Fayetteville, North Carolina *Cross Creek Pictures, a film production company *Cross Creek Programs, a therapeutic boarding school in La Verkin, Utah *Cross Creek Railro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Creek (film)
''Cross Creek'' is a 1983 American biographical drama romance film starring Mary Steenburgen as ''The Yearling'' author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir ''Cross Creek''. Plot In 1928 in New York State, aspiring author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Steenburgen) advises her husband that her last book was rejected by a publisher, she has bought an orange grove in Florida, and she is leaving him to go there. She drives to the nearest town alone, and arrives in time for her car to die. Local resident Norton Baskin (Peter Coyote) takes her the rest of the distance to a dilapidated and overgrown cabin attached to an even more overgrown orange grove. Despite Baskin's (and her own) doubts, she stays and begins to fix up the property. The local residents of "the Creek" begin to interact with her. Marsh Turner (Rip Torn) comes around with his daughter Ellie (Dana Hill), a teenage girl who keeps a deer fawn as a pet name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Alachua County, Florida
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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