Florida
- Barrineau Park
- Bayou George
- Belandville (failed "colony" in northern Santa Rosa County, approximately one mile south of its border with Escambia County, Alabama)
- Belle Glade
- Belle Isle
- Brevard County
- Clermont
- Collier County
- Destin ("destiny")
- Duval County (named for William Pope DuVal)
- Eau Gallie ("rocky water")
- Fountainbleau
- La Belle ("The Beauty", "The Beautiful" or "Beautiful Woman")
- Lafayette County
- Lake Lorraine
- Marion County
- Navarre
- Navarre Beach
- Orange County
- Port Saint Lucie (Lucie is French for Lucy)
- Ribault River (named for Jean Ribault leader of the Huguenot colony Fort Caroline in early Florida whose inhabitants were massacred by the Spanish)
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Famous quotes containing the word florida:
“In Florida consider the flamingo,
Its color passion but its neck a question.”
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)