Extended systems of underwater caves sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents the limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell During the last glacial period lower sea levels and a drier climate revealed a much wider peninsula largely savanna While there are sinkholes in much of the state modern sinkholes have tended to be in West-Central Florida Everglades National Park covers 1,509,000 acres (6,110 km2) throughout Dade Monroe and Collier counties in Florida.[citation needed] the Everglades an enormously wide slow-flowing river encompasses the southern tip of the peninsula Sinkhole damage claims on property in the state exceeded a total of $2 billion from 2006 through 2010 Winter Park Sinkhole in central Florida appeared May 8 1981 it was approximately 350 feet (107 m) wide and 75 feet (23 m) deep it was notable as one of the largest recent sinkholes to form in the United States It is now known as Lake Rose the Econlockhatchee River (Econ River for short) is an 87.7-kilometer-long (54.5 mi) north-flowing blackwater tributary of the St Johns River the longest river in the U.S state of Florida the Econ River flows through Osceola Orange and Seminole counties in Central Florida just east of the Orlando Metropolitan Area (east of State Road 417) it is a designated Outstanding Florida Waters. In addition many military schools supply stations and communications facilities were established in the area Rather than building large army bases to train the men needed to fight the war the Army and Navy came to South Florida and converted hotels to barracks movie theaters to classrooms and local beaches and golf courses to training grounds Overall over five hundred thousand enlisted men and fifty thousand officers were trained in South Florida After the end of the war many servicemen and women returned to Miami causing the population to rise to nearly half a million by 1950.
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