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Dixie County, Florida

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1921formed

16,759pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1991. Most listings are in or near Old Town, Horseshoe Beach.

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 Dixie titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
CITY OF HAWKINSVILLE (shipwreck)	Old Town	Site	2001
Garden Patch Archeological Site (8Di4)	Horseshoe Beach	Site	1991

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dixie was formed in 1921 (1921-04-25) from Lafayette.

DIXIE created from LAFAYETTE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,419	7,018	3,928	4,479	7,751	13,827	16,759

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Butler Cemetery	29.52134	-83.25958
Fayetteville Cemetery	29.71766	-82.9618
Keen Cemetery	29.42773	-83.03818
Long Pond Cemetery	29.60745	-83.06957
McCrabb Cemetery	29.67756	-82.97213
Mingo Cemetery	29.74438	-83.32115
Mount Olive Cemetery	29.63995	-83.33847
Old Town Memorial Cemetery	29.58968	-82.96596
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	29.79374	-83.0068
Sandhill Cemetery	29.54884	-83.21541
Shady Grove Cemetery	29.58051	-82.97679
Wards Cemetery	29.8155	-82.99596

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Suwanee Old Town	29.6169	-82.96651

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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