Porgy Key
Small island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park
25°23′21″N 80°14′12″W / 25.389154°N 80.236588°W / 25.389154; -80.236588
United StatesPorgy Key is a small island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park. It is in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
It is located in southern Biscayne Bay, just north of Old Rhodes Key and Totten Key, just southeast of the southern tip of Elliott Key, and in between Old Rhodes and Reid Keys. It is on the south side of Caesar Creek, the creek that separates Elliott and Old Rhodes Keys.
History
It was earlier known as Porgee Key.
Porgy Key was the home for many years of "Sir" Lancelot Jones (1898–1997), a long-time resident. Hurricane Andrew in 1992 destroyed his former residence.
The Bache Coast Survey of 1861 shows Porgee Key. It is also spelled Porgee in a 1920 Smithsonian Institution study of Cerion snails.[1]
References
- ^ "Key Names" Florida Keys Gazetteer Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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Florida Keys
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- Ragged
- Boca Chita
- Sands
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- Adams
- Caesar's Rock
- Meig's
- Rubicon
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- Porgy
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- Old Rhodes
- Islandia
- Pigeon
- Money
- Little Duck
- Missouri
- Ohio
- Sunshine
- Bahia Honda
- Spanish Harbor
- Scout (West Summerland)
- No Name
- Big Pine
- Torch
- Ramrod
- Summerland
- Knockemdown
- Cudjoe
- Sugarloaf
- Park
- Lower Sugarloaf
- Saddlebunch
- Shark
- Geiger
- Big Coppitt
- East Rockland
- Rockland
- Boca Chica
- Raccoon
- Stock Island
- Key West
- Sigsbee
- Fleming
- Sunset
- Wisteria
- Florida Bay
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
- National Key Deer Refuge
- John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
- Biscayne Bay
- Biscayne National Park
- Key West National Wildlife Refuge
- Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge
- Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge
- Florida Reef
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