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Jacksonville Metropolitan Area
The Jacksonville Metropolitan Area, also called the First Coast, Metro Jacksonville, or Northeast Florida, is the metropolitan area centered on the principal city of Jacksonville, Florida and including the First Coast of North Florida. As of the 2020 census, the total population was 1,605,848. The Jacksonville–Kingsland–Palatka, FL–GA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) had a population of 1,733,937 in 2020 and was the 34th largest CSA in the United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area is the 40th largest in the country and the fourth largest in the State of Florida, behind the Miami, Tampa, and Orlando metropolitan areas. Definitions Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) The Jacksonville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is an area designated by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget used for statistical purposes by the United States Census Bureau and other government agencies. The metropolitan statistical area had a total population of approximately 1,605,848 as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsland, Georgia
Kingsland is a city in Camden County, Georgia, Camden County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. The population was 18,337 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 15,946 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Camden County, Georgia, Kingsland, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area. As Kingsland is 3 miles from the Florida-Georgia border and 32 miles from Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville, it is also a principal city of the Jacksonville—Kingsland—Palatka, Florida, Palatka, Florida—Georgia Combined statistical area, Combined Statistical Area. The Kingsland Commercial Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1994. It includes the area surrounding South Lee Street between King Street and William Street. It hosts an annual Catfish Festival on Labor Day weekend and is the location where the fan series Star Trek Continues was filmed. History Kingsland was platted in 1894 when the railroad was extended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami Metropolitan Area
The Miami metropolitan area is a coastal metropolitan area in southeastern Florida. It is the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States, and the largest metropolitan area in Florida. It is also known as South Florida, SoFlo, SoFla, the Gold Coast, Southeast Florida, the Tri-County Area, or Greater Miami, and officially as the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of 6.45 million, its population exceeds List of U.S. states and territories by population, 31 of the nation's 50 states as of 2023. It comprises Counties of Florida, the three most populated counties in the state, Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Florida, Broward County, and Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach County. Miami-Dade County, with 2,701,767 people in 2020, is the List of United States counties and county equivalents, seventh-most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Florida
North Florida is a Regions of the United States#Florida, region of the U.S. state of Florida comprising the northernmost part of the state. Along with South Florida and Central Florida, it is one of Florida's three most common "directional" regions. It includes Jacksonville and nearby localities in Northeast Florida, an interior region known as North Central Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. North Florida is considered to be part of the Southern United States, namely the Deep South, and contains the state capital of Tallahassee. Geography Area As with many vernacular regions, North Florida does not have any officially designated boundaries or status, and is defined differently in different sources. A 2007 study of Florida's regions by geographers Ary Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified "North Florida" as comprising the northernmost areas of the state, including both the peninsula and the Florida Panhandle. Additionally, two localized "direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Coast
Florida's First Coast, or simply the First Coast, is the Atlantic coast of North Florida in the United States. It is the same general area as the directional region of Northeast Florida. It consists roughly of the counties abutting Jacksonville: Duval, Baker, Clay, Nassau, and St. Johnsand nearby Flagler County and Putnam County. The "First Coast" name originated in a marketing campaign in the 1980s, and has become part of Florida's regional vernacular. It is so named due to its history as the first European settlement in what is now the mainland United States, at Fort Caroline, Florida, in 1564. History As its name suggests, the First Coast was the first area of Florida colonized by Europeans, at Fort Caroline, Florida, in 1564. However, as with several other of Florida's vernacular regions, the "First Coast" identity originated in the tourism industry of the 20th Century before it was adopted within the community at large.Lamme & Oldakowski, pp. 330–331. In 1983 the Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban area, urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which share Industry (economics), industries, commercial areas, Transport infrastructure, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple Principal city, principal cities, jurisdictions and Municipality, municipalities: Neighbourhood, neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, City, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, County, counties, districts and even State (polity), states and nations in areas like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.In the United States, metropolitan areas are delineated around the Urban Area, core of a core based statistical area, which is defined as an urban area and includes central and outlying counties. In other countries metropolitan areas are sometimes anchored by one Core ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 386
Area code 386 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan in the U.S. state of Florida. The numbering plan area comprises the counties of Columbia County, Florida, Columbia, Flagler County, Florida, Flagler, Hamilton County, Florida, Hamilton, Lafayette County, Florida, Lafayette, Suwannee County, Florida, Suwannee, Union County, Florida, Union, the vast majority of Volusia County, Florida, Volusia County (with the exception of the unincorporated area of Osteen, Florida, Osteen), and smaller portions of Alachua County, Florida, Alachua County and Putnam County, Florida, Putnam County. The Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area is the most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area, metro area in 386. It is one of the few area codes in North America that is not Geographic contiguity, contiguous. The area code was created in an area code split of area code 904, 904 on February 15, 2001. Service area As noted above, area code 386 is split into two no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 352
Area code 352 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the area around Gainesville, Florida. It was split from area code 904 in 1995. The numbering plan area includes all of Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, Citrus, Sumter, Lake (with the exception of Montverde, Florida), and Hernando counties, and all but the extreme north of Alachua County. It also includes the southern and eastern tips of Bradford County, the west edge of northern Putnam County, the southwestern part of Clay County, the northeast and north central parts of Pasco county, and the Steinhatchee and Tennile communities in southern Taylor County. Prior to October 2021, area code 352 had telephone numbers assigned for the central office code 988. In 2020, ''988'' was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which created a conflict for exchanges that permit seven-digit dialing. This area code was therefore scheduled to transition to ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 912
Area code 912 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The numbering plan area contains Savannah, Richmond Hill, Hinesville, Vidalia, Metter, Reidsville, Homerville, Waycross, Brunswick, Folkston, Douglas, Statesboro, Ludowici, Jesup and Kingsland. The area code was created in 1954 in an area code split from area code 404, which had been assigned to the entire state in 1947. In May 2025, the Georgia Public Service Commision announced the future conversion of the NPA into an overlay complex with new area code 565 in relief of anticipated central office code exhaustion by 2028. History In 1947, when the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) divided North America into numbering plan areas (NPAs) for the first nationwide telephone numbering plan, the state of Georgia received only one area code, 404, for the entire state. The city of Atlanta operated one of the eight Regiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 324
Area codes 904 and 324 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for most of the First Coast (northeast) region of the U.S. state of Florida. The numbering plan area comprises most of the metropolitan area of Jacksonville. It includes all of Duval County, St. Johns County, Nassau County, and Baker County, and almost all of Clay County. Area code 904 was created in an area code split of area code 305 in 1965. In 2024, the numbering plan received a second area code, 324 , through the creation of an overlay complex to mitigate central office code exhaustion and provide additional telephone numbers in the area. History In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) designated the entire state of Florida as a single numbering plan area, and assigned area code 305 as a destination routing code for Operator Toll Dialing. The southwest portion was split off in 1953 with area code 813. The northern half of Florida, including Jacksonville, was assigne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Code 904
Area codes 904 and 324 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for most of the First Coast (northeast) region of the U.S. state of Florida. The numbering plan area comprises most of the metropolitan area of Jacksonville. It includes all of Duval County, St. Johns County, Nassau County, and Baker County, and almost all of Clay County. Area code 904 was created in an area code split of area code 305 in 1965. In 2024, the numbering plan received a second area code, 324 , through the creation of an overlay complex to mitigate central office code exhaustion and provide additional telephone numbers in the area. History In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) designated the entire state of Florida as a single numbering plan area, and assigned area code 305 as a destination routing code for Operator Toll Dialing. The southwest portion was split off in 1953 with area code 813. The northern half of Florida, including Jacksonville, was assign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 U.S. states, states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. * Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00). Observed during standard time (late autumn/winter in the United States and Canada). * Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00). Observed during daylight saving time (spring/summer/early autumn in the United States and Canada). On the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT, creating a 23-hour day. On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, which results in a 25-hour day. History The boundaries of the Eastern Time Zone have moved westward since the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) took over time-zone management from railroads in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
