Fort Green is an

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and

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(CDP) in Hardee County,

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, United States. Its population was 78 as of the 2020 census.

Geography

Fort Green is in northwestern Hardee County, bordered to the north by Polk County and to the south by Fort Green Springs. Brewster Road is the main road through the community, leading south to State Road 62 in Fort Green Springs and north to State Road 37 at Bradley Junction. Fort Green is northwest of Wauchula, the Hardee County seat. According to the

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, the Fort Green CDP has an area of , all of it land. Payne Creek, an east-flowing tributary of the

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, forms the southern border of the CDP.

Demographics

References

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