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Collier County, Florida

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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19historic places

—earliest paper

1923formed

375,752pop. 2020

1cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 19 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Naples, Ochopee, Everglades City.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Collier titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 19 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

19 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bank of Everglades Building	Everglades City	Building	1999
Bay City Walking Dredge	Naples	Structure	2013
Burns Lake Site (8CR259)	Ochopee	Site	1986
Everglades Laundry	Everglades City	Building	2001
Halfway Creek Site	Carnestown	Site	1980
Hinson Mounds	Miles City	Site	1978
Horr, Capt. John Foley, House	Key Marco	Site	1997
Keewaydin Club	Naples	Building	1987
Naples Historic District	Naples	District	1987
Old Collier County Courthouse	Everglades City	Building	2013
Ostl, C. J., Site	Ochopee	Site	1978
Palm Cottage	Naples	Building	1982
Platt Island	Miles City	Site	1978
Plaza Site (8CR303)	Ochopee	Site	1986
Roberts Ranch	Immokalee	District	2003
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Depot	Naples	Building	1974
Smallwood, Ted, Store	Chokoloskee Island	Building	1974
Sugar Pot Site	Ochopee	Site	1978
Turner River Site	Ochopee	Site	1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Collier was formed in 1923 (1923-07-07) from Lee.

COLLIER created from LEE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Collier County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,883	5,102	6,488	15,753	85,971	251,377	375,752

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Big Cypress National Preserve	Park unit	33.7 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

1 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Naples Memorial Gardens	26.27369	-81.81647

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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