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Lake City
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city in and county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Columbia
- Type
- Council-Manager
- City
- 12.25 sq mi (31.73 km )
- Land
- 11.85 sq mi (30.69 km )
- Water
- 0.40 sq mi (1.04 km ) 3.20%
- Elevation
- 194 ft (59 m)
- Density
- 1,040.6/sq mi (401.79/km )
- Metro
- 67,531
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip code
- 32024-32025, 32055-32056
- Fips code
- 12-37775
- Website
- www .lcfla .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home Page | City of Lake City, FL
lcfla.com →Link to the official site · 4,037 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Lake City
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Columbia County
- Population
- 12329
- Area
- 32.151487
- Elevation
- 57
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Columbia County
- Official website
- www.lcfla.com
- Image
- LakeCityFLCollage.png
- Households
- 4569
- Dialing code
- 386
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- Commons category
- Lake City, Florida
- topic's main category
- Category:Lake City, Florida
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lake City, Florida
- inception
- 1821-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 3.1977
- different from
- Lake City
- per capita income
- 24161
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- postal code
- 32056
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake City is a city in and the county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 12,329, up from 12,046 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Lake City Micropolitan Statistical Area, composed of Columbia County, as well as a principal city of the Gainesville metropolitan area, Florida. Lake City is 60 miles west of Jacksonville. Lake City has the moniker The Gateway to Florida because it is adjacent to the intersection of Interstate 75 and Interstate 10.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.