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Lake City

Lake City is a city of 12,000 people in . Lake City is known as "The Gateway to Florida" because it is adjacent to the intersection of Interstate 75 and Interstate 10. It was founded as the "Town of Alligator" in 1821.
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  • Type: Town with 12,300 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States
  • Also known as: “Alligator”, “Alligator Town”, “Lake City, FL”, and “Lake City, Florida”
  • Postal codes: 32024, 32025, 32055, and 32056

Places of Interest

Highlights include Columbia County Courthouse.

Building
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The , built in 1905, is an historic courthouse building located at 173 NE Hernando Avenue in Lake City, Florida. It was designed by architect Frank Pierce Milburn in the Classical Revival style of architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Watertown.

Locality
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is a census-designated place in , United States. It had a population of 3,018 at the 2020 census, up from 2,829 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lake City, Florida . is situated 2½ miles east of Lake City.

Lake City

Latitude
30.1894° or 30° 11′ 22″ north
Longitude
-82.6395° or 82° 38′ 22″ west
Population
12,300
Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)
IATA airport code
LCQ
United Nations Location Code
US LKB
Open location code
862V59Q6+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154151083
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4161187
Wiki­data ID
Q985179
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليك سيتي”
  • Basque: “Lake City”
  • Catalan: “Lake City”
  • Cebuano: “Lake City”
  • Chechen: “Лейк-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Lake City”
  • Chinese: “湖市”
  • Chinese: “莱克城”
  • Czech: “Lake City”
  • Dagbani: “Lake City”
  • Danish: “Lake City”
  • Dutch: “Lake City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليك سيتى”
  • French: “Lake City”
  • German: “Lake City”
  • Gilaki: “لیک سيتي”
  • Greek: “Λέικ Σίτι”
  • Haitian: “Lake City, Florid”
  • Haitian: “Lake City”
  • Hungarian: “Lake City”
  • Ido: “Lake City, Florida”
  • Ido: “Lake City”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Lake, Florida”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Lake”
  • Irish: “Lake City”
  • Italian: “Lake City”
  • Japanese: “レイクシティ”
  • Korean: “레이크 시티”
  • Korean: “레이크시티”
  • Ladin: “Lake City”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lake City”
  • Newari: “लेक सिटी (फ्लोरिडा)”
  • Newari: “लेक सिटी, फ्लोरिडा”
  • Newari: “लेक सिटी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake City”
  • Norwegian: “Lake City”
  • Persian: “لیک سیتی، فلوریدا”
  • Persian: “لیک سیتی”
  • Polish: “Lake City”
  • Portuguese: “Lake City”
  • Russian: “Лейк-Сити”
  • Serbian: “Лејк Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake City, Florida”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake City”
  • Slovak: “Lake City”
  • Slovenian: “Lake City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیک سیتی، فلوریدا”
  • Spanish: “Lake City (Florida)”
  • Spanish: “Lake City”
  • Swedish: “Lake City, Florida”
  • Swedish: “Lake City”
  • Tatar: “Лейк-Сити (Флорида)”
  • Tatar: “Лейк-Сити”
  • Turkish: “Lake City, Florida”
  • Turkish: “Lake City”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейк-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “لیک سٹی، فلورایڈا”
  • Urdu: “لیک سٹی، فلوریڈا”
  • Uzbek: “Lake City”
  • Uzbek: “Лаке Cитй”
  • Volapük: “Lake City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake City, Florida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake City”
  • Welsh: “Lake City, Florida”
  • Welsh: “Lake City”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lake City”. Photo: Excel23, CC BY-SA 4.0.