Duck Key
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 24 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ N , 80 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.8 km | |
| width | 1.5 km | |
| surface | 1.68 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 1 m | |
| Residents | 308 (2000) 183 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Duck Key | |
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Duck Key is a small island in the Florida Keys with an area of 1.68 km². It lies roughly in the center of the island chain, the nearest large island is the city of Marathon is part of Grassy Key in the West. Smaller neighboring islands are the Toms Harbor Keys and the Conch Keys .
The Overseas Highway , with which the island is connected by a short bridge, passes just north of Duck Key . Duck Key itself is almost completely built up and criss-crossed by some artificial canals, so that the island is now an archipelago of small islets.
The name of Duck Key is either returned to the resembling a duck outlines of the island or to the earlier nesting here shortly Ducks mentioned Ohrenscharben .
history
The Florida Keys were inhabited by Indians long before the arrival of Europeans . There are no traces of this early settlement on Duck Key itself, but on the neighboring island of Grassy Key. Under Spanish sovereignty, the uninhabited island came into the possession of Don Francisco Ferreira in 1814 . After Florida was ceded to the United States in 1821, Ferreira sold Duck Key twice: in 1823 to Solomon Snyder and in 1824 with a few other islands to Isaac Cox for $ 3,000 - a higher price than Key West . The resulting disputes were not finally settled until 1899. In the first half of the 19th century there were on Duck Key salt pans for salt production in which slaves worked.
The settlement of Duck Key temporarily ended with Labor Day hurricane 1935. In the 1950s, the entrepreneur Bryan Newkirk bought the island. As a result, he radically redesigned Duck Key for a few million dollars. Several kilometers of canals were dug and a marina was built. A luxurious holiday resort was built in the north, now called Hawk's Cay Resort . After that, Duck Key was gradually built with residential houses, today there are around 350 apartments.
Duck Key CDP
Duck Key is not an independent administrative unit and is therefore directly subordinate to Monroe County . For statistical purposes it is listed by the United States Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). This is not congruent with the island, but also includes the two eastern Conch Keys . At the 2000 census, Duck Key CDP had 443 residents, almost exclusively white . Duck Key Island has 308 residents and the remaining 135 are on the neighboring Conch Keys.
Individual evidence
- ↑ duckkeyonline.com Naming of Duck Key (English)
- ↑ keyshistory.org (English)
- ↑ census.gov ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
