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Discover Florida Resources

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FAU's Wimberly Library Celebrates 50+ years as a member of the Florida Depository Library Program since 1968...

The Florida Atlantic University Libraries serve as a Depository for documents published by Florida governmental agencies.  The Florida Documents print collection can be found at the S.E. Wimberly Library in Boca Raton.  The Florida Documents online collection can be accessed through the FAU catalog.

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

or the State Library of Florida website

State library of Florida

DID YOU KNOW?

Florida has 1,197 statute miles of coastline.

 2,276 statute miles of Tidal shoreline (general).

663 miles of beaches.

 

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DID YOU KNOW?

Florida has 67 counties.

The largest is Palm Beach county covering 2,578 square miles (it is the largest county east of the Mississippi River and bigger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island)

The smallest is Union county at 245 square miles

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DID YOU KNOW?

St. Augustine is considered America's oldest city -- it was established in 1565 by Spain.

However, Native peoples first reached Florida at least 12,000 years ago

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DID YOU KNOW?

Florida became the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, 1845.

It had a population of around 60,000 people.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Florida's 'State Animal' is the Florida Panther.

The 'State Marine Mammal' is the Manatee

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DID YOU KNOW?

Central Florida is the lightning capital of the USA.

  • Severe weather is actually really common in Florida, especially in the central region.
  • Here it experiences more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the USA.
  • Florida also has more tornadoes per area than any of the other states too.
  • Hurricanes, you ask? Well, Florida also has so many of them that it’s the most hurricane-prone state too. Sunshine State, hah!

DID YOU KNOW?

There is only one place in the world where you can find crocodiles and alligators, and that’s in Florida.

  • n the Everglades National Park, the largest tropical wildlands in the US, you can find such a sight.
  • While you can find alligators all over Florida, the only place where you can see both them and the American crocodile, a protected species, is here.
  • There are actually 38 different protected species in the Everglades National Park, including the West Indian manatee and the Florida panther – one of the most endangered mammals left on this planet.