Indian Mound Village, Florida
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Indian Mound Village is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Seminole County,
Florida Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
, United States, located on the St. Johns River. It is also where the
Osteen Bridge The Douglas Stenstrom Bridge, also known as the Osteen Bridge, is a steel-and-concrete bridge located in Indian Mound Village, Florida, east of Sanford, that carries State Road 415 over the St. Johns River. The current bridge was completed in ...
is. The community takes its name from a nearby Indian burial mound, likely Timucuan. However, the namesake burial mounds have not been left intact, minimizing the archeological value.


History

The area was originally subdivided into 116 lots in 1926 by the Davey-Winston Organization Inc. of
Sanford, Florida Sanford is a city and the county seat of Seminole County, Florida, United States. It is located in Central Florida and its population was 61,051 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical ...
. The county approved construction of a water distribution system to the community in 1967.


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Unincorporated communities in Seminole County, Florida Unincorporated communities in Florida {{SeminoleCountyFL-geo-stub