Spring City is a town in the

Abaco Islands The Abaco Islands lie in the north of Bahamas, The Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida, US. The main islands are Great Abaco and Little Abaco, which is just west of Great Abaco's northern tip. T ...

, northern

Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...

. It is almost directly south of

Marsh Harbour Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 6,283 as of 2012. The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the Great Abaco Highway, which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour. North of to ...

. It is also a part of the Marsh Harbour-Spring City Township. It is located 4 meters above sea-level, making it prone to

global warming Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes ...

. As of 2010, its population was 500.SOUTH ABACO POPULATION BY SETTLEMENT AND TOTAL NUMBER OF OCCUPIED DWELLINGS: 2010 CENSUS
- Bahamas Department of Statistics The town is named for a blue hole, which is found near the back of the settlement in the pine forest. During the Wilson city era of logging operations, the railroad passed by the blue hole to fill up on water. Spring city was started in 1959, to house Bahamian staff for the Ownes Illinois pulpwood operation, at Snake Cay. The settlement began to decline after the pulpwood and sugar operations shut down, however it was still home to hundreds of people. During

Hurricane Dorian Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike The Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in term ...

, on September 1st 2019, the town was heavily damaged and most of its residents were displaced. Today, due to rebuilding efforts and resettlement, Spring city has made a comeback.

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Populated places in the Bahamas Abaco Islands {{Bahamas-geo-stub

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