Table 5. --(Continued) 



County, estuarine 

 study area 

 and city— 



1970 

 I960 1970 Land Population 



Population Population area density 



Okaloosa County 61,175 



■ !..■. I i ■ h.i I . .';,-,■ 



Bay: 



Point Washington . . 



(w) 2' 90 



Santa Rosa , . 



Beach (W) -300 



Freeport (W) . . . . 



Portland (W) J/ 200 



Destin —900 



Niceville 4,517 



Valparaiso 5,975 



Shalimar 754 



Clnco Bayou 643 



Total 13,379 



Santa Rosa County... 29,547 



Santa Rosa Sound: 

 Fort Walton 



Beach 12,147 



Mary Esther (0). i/ 780 



Florosa (0) -150 



Total 13,077 



3/ 



P opu lati 



Sq.mi.- per sq.mi . 

 3,187 944 93 



37,741 



County, estuarine 1970 



study arfja 1960 1970 Land Population 



and city- Population Population area density 



205,334 



-, . Population 



Sq.mi.— per sq.mi. 



313 



Escambia Bay: 



Bagdad -'900 



Milton 4,108 



Total 5,008 



Escambia County 173,829 



Pensacola Bay: 



Gulf Breeze 



Pensacola 56,752 



Brownsville 38,417 



Warrington 16,752 



Total 111,921 



Perdido Bay: 



Myrtle Grove -'3,000 



Total 3,000 



Total, coastal 

 counties 2,448,210 3,320,226 20,461 162 



Total, cities 

 and towns on 

 estuaries 



910,015 



1/c 



Source: Florida Development Commission (1968) and the U. S. census of 1970, except as noted below. Dashes (---) indicate data 

 not available or not applicable. 

 2/ 



- (H)--in Hillsborough County; (L)--in Lee County; (M)--in Manatee County; (O)--in Okaloosa County; (S)-in Sarasota County; (Kl- 

 in Walton County. J v 



3/ 



- Sq. kilometers = sq . mi. x 2.59. 



4/ 



- From Rand McNally International Atlas, Rand McNally & Co., New York. 1964 



ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 



The purpose of this section is to identify the 

 principal socio-economic activities in and around 

 Florida's west coast estuaries and to estimate 

 their relative economic importance. Manufac- 

 turing, tourism, construction, sport fishing, agri- 

 culture, phosphate mining and commercial fish- 

 ing are the major activities. We assigned the 

 values that appear below from information in 

 sources that are readily available. The figures 

 are for 1963 unless otherwise noted because that 

 is the last year for which compilations by county 

 are available in most categories. 



Manufacturing (value added) $550 million 



Tourism (amount spent by tourists) . . . 500 



Construction (contracts) 300 



Sport fishing (amount spent by fishermen) 150 



Agriculture (value to farmers) 130 



Phosphate mining (value at mines) .... 100 



Commercial fishing (value to fishermen) 20 



Sources of the data are: manufacturing — 

 Forstall (1970); tourism— Florida Department 

 of Commerce (1970); construction— Raisz 

 (1964) extrapolated to 1963 on the basis of 

 growths of population and tourism; sport fish- 

 ing—Ellis, Rosen, and Moffet (1958) extrapo- 

 lated to 1963; agriculture — University of Flor- 

 ida (1970); phosphate mining — Raisz (1964) 

 extrapolated to 1963. 



The distribution of major industries reflects 

 the availability of resources, supplies of labor, 

 transportation facilities and local demand for 

 products (Fig. 40). Food processing is the 

 largest single industry. It includes canning 

 plants for citrus concentrates and vegetables, 

 dairy and ice cream plants, bakeries, breweries, 

 and meat packing plants. Large paper mills are 

 located at Foley-Perry, Port St. Joe, Panama 

 City, and Pensacola where the necessary large 

 supplies of timber and fresh water are available. 

 The chemical plants of the St. Andrew Bay and 

 Escambia Bay area — also dependent on ample 

 fresh water — produce acrylic fibers, fertilizer, 

 ammonia, nitric acid, and paints. 



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