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Okeechobee County, Florida

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1917formed

39,644pop. 2020

3cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Okeechobee.

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 Okeechobee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
First Methodist Episcopal Church, South	Okeechobee	Building	2015
Freedman-Raulerson House	Okeechobee	Building	1985
Okeechobee Battlefield NHL	Okeechobee	Site	1966

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Okeechobee was formed in 1917 (1917-08-07) from Osceola, Palm Beach, St.

OKEECHOBEE created from OSCEOLA, PALM BEACH, and ST. LUCIE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Okeechobee County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,132	3,000	3,454	6,424	20,264	35,910	39,644

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

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

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Basinger Cemetery	27.38427	-81.01352
Evergreen Cemetery	27.28643	-80.81506
Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery	27.24615	-80.83311

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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