Okeechobee
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seat of Okeechobee County in Florida, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Okeechobee
- Incorporated
- June 4, 1915
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Total
- 4.15 sq mi (10.76 km )
- Land
- 4.05 sq mi (10.50 km )
- Water
- 0.097 sq mi (0.25 km ) 0.96%
- Elevation
- 26 ft (7.9 m)
- Density
- 1,296/sq mi (500.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 34972-34974
- Fips code
- 12-51200
- Website
- http://www.cityofokeechobee.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Okeechobee
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Okeechobee County
- Population
- 5254
- Area
- 10.776234
- Elevation
- 8
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Okeechobee County
- Official website
- www.cityofokeechobee.com
- Image
- Okeechobee City Hall.JPG
- Households
- 1814
- Dialing code
- 863
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- Commons category
- Okeechobee, Florida
- postal code
- 34974
- inception
- 1835-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 2.1937
- per capita income
- 19633
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Encyclopedic overview
Okeechobee ( US: /oʊkiˈtʃoʊbi/ OH-kee-CHOH-bee) is a city in and the county seat of Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 US census, the city's population was 5,254.
The Lake Okeechobee area was severely damaged in the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, the first recorded Category 5 hurricane in the North Atlantic. This was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the US.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okeechobee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.