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Kissimmee (/ k ɪ ˈ s ɪ m i / ⓘ kih-SIM-ee) [4] is the largest city and county seat [5] of Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 79,226. It is a Principal City of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area , which had a 2020 population of 2,673,376.
Lake Kissimmee State Park is a 5,930-acre (24 km 2) Florida State Park located north of State Road 60, 15 miles (24 km) east of Lake Wales. It contains floodplain, forest, prairie, hammock, flatwoods and Lakes Kissimmee, Tiger, and Rosalie. The park is home to 50 species of plants and animals that are either threatened, of special concern or ...
U.S. Route 192 (US 192) is an east–west route of the United States Numbered Highway system in central Florida.It runs 75.04 miles (120.77 km) from U.S. Route 27 (State Road 25) in Four Corners, Lake County, east past Walt Disney World and through Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Melbourne, to end at State Road A1A in Indialantic, one block from the Atlantic Ocean.
Osceola Parkway. Osceola Parkway, signed as County Road 522 ( CR 522) since around 2003 (and originally planned as State Road 424 [not verified in body] ), is a 17.5-mile-long (28.2 km), partially tolled arterial road extending east–west across the northern boundary of Osceola County, Florida, roughly paralleling the border with Orange County.
List of counties in Florida. There are 67 counties in the U.S. state of Florida, which became a territory of the U.S. in 1821 with two counties complementing the provincial divisions retained as a Spanish territory, Escambia to the west and St. Johns to the east. The two counties were divided by the Suwannee River.
Osceola County ( / ˌɒsiˈoʊlə / AH-see-OH-lə) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 388,656. [ 1] Its county seat is Kissimmee. [ 2] Osceola County is included in the Orlando – Kissimmee – Sanford, Fla. Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Lake Kissimmee. / 27.90278°N 81.27222°W / 27.90278; -81.27222. Lake Kissimmee is a lake located about 15 mi (24 km) east of Lake Wales, Florida, USA. The lake is almost entirely in Osceola County, but the western shore, and a small part of the lake, is in Polk County . Lake Kissimmee State Park is rich with wildlife, including bald ...
Okeechobee, Florida. Coordinates. 27°35′35″N 81°04′10″W. / 27.59306°N 81.06944°W / 27.59306; -81.06944. Governing body. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Website. Official website. Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park is a Florida state park, located approximately 25 miles north of Okeechobee, off US 441.