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Lafayette County, Florida

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0historic places

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1856formed

8,226pop. 2020

19cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lafayette was formed in 1856 (1856-12-23) from Madison.

LAFAYETTE created from MADISON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lafayette County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,068	2,441	4,987	6,242	4,405	3,440	2,889	4,035	7,022	8,226

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

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

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alton Cemetery	30.04605	-83.13263
Bethany Cemetery	30.0859	-83.26067
Bethel Cemetery	29.87975	-82.97029
Bethel Cemetery	30.05131	-83.20844
Brown Cemetery	30.08134	-83.25689
Byrd Cemetery	29.95844	-82.9867
Cooks Hammock Cemetery	29.93279	-83.27494
Dees Cemetery	30.17355	-83.29764
Elliott Cemetery	30.05848	-83.07317
Folsom Cemetery	30.07924	-83.28835
Hatchbend Cemetery	29.87583	-82.93444
Land Cemetery	30.00259	-83.17083
Maypop Cemetery	29.98266	-83.01702
Old Hatchbend Cemetery	29.85634	-82.90762
Roger Cemetery	30.19466	-83.30014
Sand Pond Cemetery	30.03142	-83.08917
Walker Creek Baptist Cemetery	29.87999	-82.95639
Wayfare Cemetery	30.04244	-83.15402
Winburn Cemetery	30.04681	-83.1647

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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