Florida Keys Vacation Rentals

Florida Keys Vacation Rentals

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The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast US. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. The islands lie along the Florida Straits, dividing the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the Gulf of Mexico to the west, and defining one edge of Florida Bay. At the nearest point, the southern tip of Key West is just 94 miles from Cuba. The Florida Keys are between about 23.5 and 25.5 degrees North latitude, in the subtropics. The climate of the Keys however, is defined as tropical according to Köppen climate classification. More than 95 percent of the land area lies in Monroe County, but a small portion extends northeast into Miami-Dade County, primarily in the city of Islandia, Florida. The total land area is 355.6 km². As of the 2000 census the population was 79,535, with an average density of 223.66 km², although much of the population is concentrated in a few areas of much higher density, such as the city of Key West, which has 32 per cent of the entire population of the Keys.

While some visitors arrive via Key West International Airport and Florida Keys Marathon Airport in Marathon, cruise ship or ferry from Miami or Fort Myers, the vast majority of tourists drive down from the mainland on US 1.

Major islands

USA Highway 1, the "Overseas Highway" runs over most of the inhabited islands of the Florida Keys. The islands are listed in order from northeast to southwest.

Upper keys

Keys in Biscayne National Park (accessible only by boat) in Miami - Dade County

Transitional keys, Soldier Key, Ragged Keys, Boca Chita Key, Sands Key

True Florida keys, exposed ancient coral reefs
Elliott Key, Adams Key, Reid Key, Rubicon Keys, Totten Key, Old Rhodes Key

Keys in Monroe County

Key Largo, Plantation Key, Windley Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Lignumvitae Key, Lower Matecumbe Key

(Plantation Key through Lower Matecumbe Key are incorporated as Islamorada, Village of Islands. The "towns" of Key Largo, North Key Largo and Tavernier, all on the island of Key Largo, are not incorporated.)

Middle keys

Craig Key, Fiesta Key, Long Key (formerly known as Rattlesnake Key), Conch Key, Duck Key, Grassy Key, Crawl Key, Long Point Key, Fat Deer Key, Key Vaca, Boot Key, Knight's Key, Pigeon Key,

(Key Vaca, Boot Key, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Grassy Key are incorporated in the city of Marathon)

Lower keys

Little Duck Key, Missouri Key, Ohio Key (also known as Sunshine Key), Bahia Honda Key, Spanish Harbor Keys, West Summerland Key, No Name Key, Big Pine Key, Little Torch Key, Middle Torch Key, Big Torch Key, Ramrod Key, Summerland Key, Knockemdown Key, Cudjoe Key, Sugarloaf Key, Park Key, Lower Sugarloaf Key, Saddlebunch Keys, Shark Key, Geiger Key, Big Coppitt Key, East Rockland Key, Rockland Key, Boca Chica Key, Key Haven (Raccoon Key), Stock Island, Key West, Sigsbee Park, Fleming Key

Outlying islands

These are accessible by boat.

among others

Sunset Key, Wisteria Island

the Marquesas Keys
the Dry Tortugas (not shown on map)

The Keys were originally inhabited by Calusa and Tequesta Native Americans. They were later found and charted by Ponce de Leon. "Key" is corrupted from the Spanish Cayo, meaning small island. For many years, Key West was the largest town in Florida, and it grew prosperous on wrecking. The isolated outpost was well located for trade with Cuba, the Bahamas, and was on the main trade route from New Orleans. Improved navigation led to fewer shipwrecks, and Key West went into a decline in the late nineteenth century. A legend says that shipwreckers removed navigational markers from shallow areas to strand unsuspecting captains ashore.

The city of Key West is the county seat of Monroe County, which consists of a section on the mainland which is almost entirely in Everglades National Park, and the Keys islands from Key Largo to the Dry Tortugas.

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