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Hernando County, Florida

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10historic places

—earliest paper

1843formed

194,515pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1997. Most listings are in or near Brooksville, Spring Hill, Webster.

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 Hernando titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Chinsegut Hill Manor House	Brooksville	Building	2003
Jennings, William Sherman, House	Brooksville	Building	1998
May-Stringer House	Brooksville	Building	1997
Richloam General Store and Post Office	Webster	Building	2017
Russell, Judge Willis, House	Brooksville	Building	1999
Saxon, Frank, House	Brooksville	Building	1998
Sinclair Service Station	Spring Hill	Building	2020
South Brooksville Avenue Historic District	Brooksville	District	1998
Spring Lake Community Center	Brooksville	Building	2009
Weeki Wachee Springs	Spring Hill	District	2020

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hernando was formed in 1843 (1843-02-24) from Alachua, Hillsborough.

HERNANDO created by Florida Territory from ALACHUA and HILLSBOROUGH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Hernando County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
926	1,200	4,248	3,638	4,548	5,641	6,693	11,205	44,469	130,802	194,515

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

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brooksville Cemetery	28.54694	-82.36843
Community Baptist Church Cemetery	28.61361	-82.46417
Florida Hills Memorial Gardens	28.47631	-82.48381
Johnson Cemetery	28.45165	-82.35669
Lake Lindsey Cemetery	28.63583	-82.36667
Long Memorial Cemetery	28.52889	-82.31778
Masaryktown Cemetery	28.43414	-82.45636
McGeachy Cemetery	28.46623	-82.39741
New Church Cemetery	28.65499	-82.35009
Twin Lakes Cemetery	28.44166	-82.29731

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

Historical markers

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