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6 unusual facts about Ochlockonee River


Carrabelle, Florida

Carrabelle is surrounded by the Carrabelle River, Crooked River, Ochlockonee River and the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1876 explorer Nathaniel Holmes Bishop of Medford, Massachusetts navigated the Crooked River through the lowlands to the Ochlockonee River.

Franklin County, Florida

The extreme eastern tip of the county is bordered by the Ochlockonee River.

Gadsden County, Florida

The fourth line is the third CSX Line, the Bainbridge Subdivision, which runs along the west side of US 27 from Leon County by way of a bridge over the Ochlockonee River to the Georgia State Line.

Oval pigtoe

Historically, this mussel was very abundant in the Flint River in Georgia, the Chattahoochee River in Georgia and Alabama, the Chipola River in Alabama and Florida, the Ochlockonee River in Georgia and Florida, the Apalachicola River and Suwanee/Santa Fe Rivers in Florida, and Econfina Creek in Florida.

Remasellus

Remasellus parvus, the swimming Florida cave isopod, is an isopod endemic to "4 caves in the Ochlockonee and Aucilla-Suwanee drainages of Florida", United States.


Tate's Hell State Forest

The park's watershed provides fresh water into the Apalachicola Bay, the Carrabelle River and the Ochlockonee River.


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