Okeechobee County.

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                                                                                                        Omar Shakeel

                                                                                      November 3, 2001

                                                                                  Period # 5

                                              Okeechobee County

       Okeechobee County was created in 1917 from Osceola, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie

Counties. It is positioned in south central Florida, just west of the Fort Pierce region and

is named for the great lake that it surrounds.  The chief industry is agriculture, and the

farms generate a huge amount of winter vegetables due to the natural soils of the county.

Beside agriculture and dairying, Okeechobee County has a very little industry of any

kind. The county is home to many local animals and plants sustained by the distinctive

environment surrounding Lake Okeechobee.

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       Lake Okeechobee is the second major freshwater lake within the United States. It is  

not very deep, with an average depth of only 14 feet. Fishing is a year round business.

This lake has an outer surface area of 730 square miles. Its size is 448,000 acres and can

hold about 1.05 trillion gallons of water. The chief sources of inflow to the lake is

precipitation making up 39 percent, the Kissimmee River, which contributes 31 percent,

and the Harney Pond and Indian Prairie Fish Eating ...

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