Hardee County, Florida

412 W Orange St Rm A-203
Wauchula, FL 33873
Phone: (863) 773-6952
Fax: (863) 773-0958
www.hardeecounty.net

In south-central FL, south of Winter Haven; organized Apr 23, 1921 from DeSoto County. Name Origin: For Cary Augustus Hardee (1876-1957), governor of FL (1921-25)

Area (sq mi):: 638.33 (land 637.30; water 1.03) Population per square mile: 44.40
Population 2005: 28,286 State rank: 49 Population change: 2000-20005 5.00%; 1990-2000 38.20% Population 2000: 26,938 (White 54.60%; Black or African American 8.30%; Hispanic or Latino 35.70%; Asian 0.30%; Other 20.80%). Foreign born: 17.50%. Median age: 32.70
Income 2000: per capita $12,445; median household $30,183; Population below poverty level: 24.60% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $16,616-$17,257
Unemployment (2004): 6.60% Unemployment change (from 2000): -3.00% Median travel time to work: 26.70 minutes Working outside county of residence: 30.60%

Cities with population over 10,000: None

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At least four deaths have been connected to the storm: Two police officers died when their vehicles collided in Hardee County in central Florida.

Irma Leaves Most of Florida Without Power

Another two people died in a head-on crash in Hardee County, south-east of the city of Tampa.

STATE OF TERROR; HURRICANE IRMA SLAMS INTO FLORIDA; 3 dead as winds of 135mph strike; 36 million told to stay indoors

My son Alex and I fished in the private pits at Streamsong Resort, a luxury golf resort and conference center in Hardee County. The Mosaic Company--a global giant in the production of phosphate-based crop nutrients--developed this 16,000-acre property and opened it in December 2012.

Pit prizes: on reclaimed phosphate pits, forget everything you know about Florida bass fishing

12(b)(3), arguing that the clause required venue in the state court for Hardee County, where most of the property was located.

Venue-selection clauses: a trap for the unwary

Motorala's Enterprise Mobility Solutions business announced on Thursday that Rapid Systems, a wireless internet service provider and member of its channel programme, was selected by the Hardee Broadband Project to deploy Motorola's fixed wireless broadband solutions across Hardee county, Florida.

Motorola selected to provide fixed wireless broadband solutions to Hardee county

The Florida Scrub Tiger Beetle Cicindela scabrosa Schaupp, a species precinctive to Florida, has not previously been recorded from Hardee County, Florida.

A new record for Cicindela scabrosa (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) from Hardee County, Florida

2007), and two reclaimed mine land nesting sites in Hardee County (Nancy Douglass, FFWCC unpubl, data), brought the annual statewide confirmed nest counts up to 18, 28, and 19 for the three years, respectively (see Table 1).

Species at risk: gull-billed tern: a review and update of the conservation status of the critically imperiled gull-billed tern in Florida 1998-2006

* Florida, August 2004: Provided electricity generators to victims of Hurricane Charley in Florida and powered Hardee County's only solid waste facility.

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