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Hardee County, Florida

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1921formed

25,327pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Wauchula, Bowling Green.

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 Hardee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Carlton, Albert, Estate	Wauchula	District	1991
Downtown Wauchula Historic District	Wauchula	District	2018
Payne's Creek Massacre-Fort Chokonikla Site	Bowling Green	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

Hardee was formed in 1921 (1921-04-23) from De Soto.

HARDEE created from DE SOTO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
10,348	10,158	10,073	12,370	19,379	26,938	25,327

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
Coker Cemetery	27.35299	-81.85366
Hart Cemetery	27.60219	-81.675
Midway Cemetery	27.39925	-81.61715
Oak Grove Cemetery	27.47099	-81.86003
Olive Branch Cemetery	27.61956	-81.88929
Wauchula Cemetery	27.5317	-81.81147

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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