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Gilchrist County, Florida

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1926formed

17,864pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2013. Most listings are in or near Bell, Trenton.

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 Gilchrist 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
Cannon Farm	Bell	District	2013
Gilchrist County Jail	Trenton	Building	2024

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gilchrist was formed in 1926 (1926-01-01) from Alachua.

GILCHRIST created from ALACHUA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,137	4,250	3,499	2,868	5,767	14,437	17,864

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Joppa Cemetery	29.62884	-82.84123
Mount Horeb Cemetery	29.80193	-82.75181
Osceola Cemetery	29.74053	-82.6653
Shady Grove Cemetery	29.57775	-82.76443
Townsend Cemetery	29.8199	-82.90128
Trenton Cemetery	29.63148	-82.80224

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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