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Florida State Museum, University of West Florida Library, Escambia County Courthouse, William Dudley Chipley Obelisk, National Naval Aviation Museum Official seal of Pensacola, Florida Nickname(s): America's First Settlement, The Upside of Florida, P-Cola, The City of Five Flags, Red Snapper Capital of the World, World's Whitest Beaches, Cradle of Naval Aviation, Western Gate to the Sunshine State Location in Escambia County and the state of Florida Location in Escambia County and the state of Florida Pensacola, Florida is positioned in the US Pensacola, Florida - Pensacola, Florida Body Pensacola City Council Pensacola (/ p ns ko l /) is the westernmost town/city in the Florida Panhandle and the governmental center of county of Escambia County, in the U.S.
State of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 51,923, down from 56,255 at the 2000 census.
Pensacola is the principal town/city of the Pensacola urbane area, which had an estimated 461,227 inhabitants in 2012. Pensacola is a sea port on Pensacola Bay, which is protected by the barrier island of Santa Rosa and joins to the Gulf of Mexico.
A large United States Naval Air Station, the first in the United States, is positioned southwest of Pensacola near Warrington; it is the base of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team and the National Naval Aviation Museum.
The chief campus of the University of West Florida is situated north of the town/city center.
The Pensacola citizens lived there at the time of European contact, and Creek citizens incessantly visited and interchanged from present-day southern Alabama.
It is nicknamed "The City of Five Flags", due to the five governments that have ruled it amid its history: the flags of Spain (Castile), France, Great Britain, the United States of America and the Confederate States of America.
12.1 Bands from Pensacola Pensacola was the site of one of the first European-inhabited settlements in what would later turn into the United States of America.
Pensacola: Site of 1698 settlement near Fort Barrancas is marked "X" (above left end of Santa Rosa Island).
Main articles: History of Pensacola, Florida and Timeline of Pensacola, Florida The initial inhabitants of the Pensacola Bay region were Native American citizens s.
At the time of European contact, a Muskogean-speaking tribe known to the Spanish as the Pensacola lived in the region.
This name was not recorded until 1677, but the tribe appears to be the origin of the name "Pensacola" for the bay and thence the city. Creek citizens , also Muskogean-speaking, came regularly from present-day southern Alabama to trade, so the citizens s were part of a broader county-wide and even continental network of relations. The best-known Pensacola culture site in terms of archeology is the Bottle Creek site, a large site positioned 59 miles (95 km) west of Pensacola north of Mobile, Alabama.
It was a ceremonial center for the Pensacola citizens and a gateway to their society.
The expeditions of Panfilo de Narvaez in 1528 and Hernando de Soto in 1539 both visited Pensacola Bay, the latter of which documented the name "Bay of Ochuse". The Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano fires a 21-gun salute with respect to Pensacola's 450th anniversary in 2009.
Survivors made their way to Cuba and finally returned to Pensacola, where the remaining 50 at Pensacola were taken back to Veracruz.
Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola (1754 1763): the final presidio was assembled about 5 miles (8 km) east of the first presidio; the present-day historic precinct of downtown Pensacola, titled from "Panzacola", advanced around the fort. Some married or had unions with Pensacola, Creek or African women, both slave and free, and their descendants created a mixed-race populace of mestizos and mulattos.
Augustine, but escaped slaves also reached Pensacola.
The British designated Pensacola as the capital of their new colony of West Florida.
After Spain joined the American Revolution in 1779 on the side of the rebels, Spanish forces captured the town/city in the 1781 Battle of Pensacola, gaining control of West Florida. After the war, the British officially ceded both West Florida and East Florida to Spain.
A 1783 engraving depicting the Siege of Pensacola In 1819 Spain and the United States negotiated the Adams Onis Treaty, by which Spain sold the Floridas to the United States for US$5 million. A Spanish census of 1820 pointed out 181 homeholds in the town, with a third of mixed-blood.
In 1821, with Andrew Jackson as provisional governor, Pensacola became part of the United States. The Creek continued to interact with European Americans and African Americans, but the dominant caucasians increasingly imposed their binary ethnic classifications: white and black ("colored", inside which were encompassed no-charge citizens of color, including Indians).
Michael's Cemetery Foundation of Pensacola, Inc. Preliminary studies indicate that there are over 3,200 marked burials as well as a large number unmarked. In 1907 1908 there were 116 Creek in Pensacola who applied for the Eastern Cherokee enrollment, thinking that all Indians were eligible to enroll.
Based on Alabama census records, most of these individuals have been found to be descendants of Creek who had migrated to the Pensacola region from southern Alabama after Indian removal of the 1830 s. Pensacola Beach, Florida Pensacola is positioned at 30 26 13 N 87 12 33 W (30.436988, 87.209277), on the north side of Pensacola Bay.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Pensacola has a total region of 40.7 square miles (105.4 km2), consisting of 22.5 square miles (58.4 km2) of territory and 18.1 square miles (47.0 km2), 44.62%, water. The Seville Tower is one of the many historic and famous buildings in Pensacola.
Pensacola does not have a prominent skyline, but has a several low-rise buildings.
Historic buildings in Pensacola include the First National Bank Building.
Observations from the Pensacola region by other sources continued intermittently over the next a several decades. The town/city has seen single digit temperatures (below 12 C) on three occasions: 5 F ( 15 C) on January 21, 1985, 7 F ( 14 C) on February 13, 1899 and 8 F ( 13 C) on January 11, 1982. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Pensacola has a humid subtropical climate, (Koppen Cfa), with short, mild winters and hot, humid summers.
Due partly to the coastal location, temperatures above 100 F (38 C) are mostly rare, and last occurred in June 2011, when two of the first four days of the month recorded highs reaching the century mark. The highest temperature ever recorded in the town/city was 106 F (41 C) on July 14, 1980. The daily average temperature in January is 51.4 F (10.8 C); freezing temperatures occur on an average 13.7 evenings per season, with the average window for freezing conditions being from December 13 to February 20. Temperatures below 20 F ( 7 C) are very rare, and last occurred on January 8, 2015, when a low of 19 F ( 7 C) was seen. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the town/city was 5 F ( 15 C) on January 21, 1985. Snow is rare in Pensacola, but does occasionally fall.
The rainiest month is July, with 7.40 inches (188 mm), with May being the driest month at 4.17 inches (106 mm). In June 2012 over one foot (300 mm) of precipitation fell on Pensacola and adjoining areas, dominant to widespread flooding. On April 29, 2014.
Pensacola was drenched by at least 20 inches of precipitation within a 24-hour period, causing the worst flooding in 30 years The town/city suffered a primary blow on February 23, 2016, when a large EF3 wedge tornado hit the northwest part of Pensacola, causing primary damage and a several injuries.
Climate data for Pensacola, Florida (Pensacola Int'l), 1981 2010 normals Pensacola's locale on the Florida Panhandle makes it vulnerable to hurricanes.
Major hurricanes which have made landfall at or near Pensacola since the late 20th century include Eloise (1975), Frederic (1979), Juan (1985), Erin (1995), Opal (1995), Georges (1998), Ivan (2004), and Dennis (2005).
Pensacola and a several surrounding areas were devastated by Hurricane Ivan.
Pensacola was on the easterly side of the eyewall, which sent a large storm surge into Escambia Bay; this finished most of the I-10 Escambia Bay Bridge.
The storm knocked 58 spans off the eastbound and westbound bridges and misaligned another 66 spans, forcing the bridge to close to traffic in both directions. The surge also finished the fishing bridge that spanned Pensacola Bay alongside the Phillip Beale Memorial Bridge, locally known as the Three Mile Bridge.[dead link] Pensacola received only a glancing blow from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, resulting in light to moderate damage reported in the area.
As of the census of 2010, there were 51,923 citizens , 23,600 homeholds, and 14,665 families residing in the city, and 402,000 citizens in the Pensacola MSA.
Out of the total populace in Pensacola, 45.9% identify with a religion, slightly lower than the nationwide average of 48.34%. Over 48% of Pensacolians who practice a religion identify as Baptists (22.14% of all town/city residents). Other Christian denominations include Roman Catholics (9.22% of town/city residents), Pentecostal (3.82%), Methodist (3.77%), Episcopal (1.11%), Presbyterian (1.08%), and Orthodox (0.30%). Pensacola is home to a small (0.15% of town/city residents) but momentous Jewish community, whose roots date mostly to German Jewish immigrants of the mid-to-late 19th century.
Apart from the Reform Beth-El, Pensacola is also served by the Conservative B'nai Israel Synagogue. Paula Ackerman, the first woman who performed rabbinical functions in the United States, was a Pensacola native and led services at Beth-El.
Map of Pensacola Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) was the first Naval Air Station commissioned by the U.S.
Schuetz Memorial Health Clinic is at Corry Station, Naval Hospital Pensacola, as is the chief Navy Exchange and Defense Commissary Agency commissary complex for both Corry Station and NAS Pensacola.
The Army National Guard B Troop 1-153 Cavalry, Bravo Company 146th Expeditionary Signal Battalion is stationed in Pensacola.
Naval Hospital Pensacola - Official Site (restricted to military personnel/dependents/authorized persons) The Pensacola Seafood Festival and The Pensacola Crawfish Festival held in the heart of historic Downtown has been held for nearly 30 years with live music acts.
Pensacola is the site of the Vietnam Veterans' Wall South.
There is the National Naval Aviation Museum and Pensacola Lighthouse at NAS Pensacola.
The city's convention and visitors' agency, Visit Pensacola, is overseen by the Greater Pensacola Chamber. Saenger Theater in Downtown Pensacola There are a number of different performance venues in the Pensacola Area, including the Pensacola Bay Center (formerly the Pensacola Civic Center), often used for big ticket affairs, and the Saenger Theater, used for performances and mid-level affairs.
Other theatres used for live performances, plays, and musicals include the Pensacola Little Theatre, Pensacola State College, University of West Florida, Vinyl Music Hall, and Loblolly Theatre.
Pensacola is also home to the Pensacola Opera, Pensacola Children's Chorus, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, and the Choral Society of Pensacola, as well as Ballet Pensacola.
Pensacola Ice Flyers Ice hockey Southern Professional Hockey League Pensacola Bay Center Pensacola Blue Wahoos Baseball Southern League (AA) Pensacola Bayfront Stadium West Florida Argonauts Baseball, Basketball, American Football NCAA Division II Gulf South Conference University of West Florida Pensacola Roller Gurlz Flat Track Roller Derby Women's Flat Track Derby Association Dreamland Skate Center Pensacola Bayfront Stadium See also: List of mayors of Pensacola, Florida The town/city of Pensacola utilizes a strong mayor-council form of government, which was adopted in 2011 after people voted in 2009 to approve a new town/city charter.
An propel mayor serves as the chief executive of the town/city government, while an eight-member town/city council serves as the city's governing body.
After the Civil War, Pensacola, like the rest of the South was controlled by Republicans amid the Reconstruction era (1865-1877).
The Republican government had various African American politicians, including a several county commissioners, town/city aldermen, constables, state representatives, and even one African American mayor Salvador Pons.
Perry, a Democrat who actually lost the Escambia County vote amid the statewide election, acted to dissolve the Republican town/city government of Pensacola and in 1885 replaced this government with hand-picked successors, including barns magnate William D.
This changed in 1994, when Republican attorney Joe Scarborough defeated Vince Whibbs, Jr., the son of prominent former Democratic mayor Vince Whibbs, in a landslide to represent Florida's 1st congressional district, which is based in Pensacola.
The Pensacola region has not supported a Democrat for President since John F.
In 1968, Pensacola and the rest of North Florida supported American Independent Party candidate George Wallace.
Chuck Baldwin, the 2008 presidential nominee of the Constitution Party, is the pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola.
Pensacola is presently represented in the U.S.
Public major and secondary education schools in Pensacola are administered by the Escambia County School District.
The University of West Florida, positioned north of the city, is the biggest post-secondary institution in the area.
Pensacola State College Pensacola Christian College Pensacola High School Pensacola Catholic High School Pensacola Christian Academy The biggest daily journal in the region is the Pensacola News Journal, with offices on Romana Street in downtown; the News Journal is owned by the Gannett Company.
There is an alternative weekly newspaper, the Pensacola Independent News.
Pensacola is home to WEAR-TV, the ABC partner for Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, and Mobile, Alabama, and WSRE-TV, the small-town PBS member station, which is directed by Pensacola State College.
Pensacola Magazine, the city's monthly glossy magazine, and Northwest Florida's Business Climate, the only company periodical devoted to the region, are presented locally.
Major air traffic in the Pensacola and greater northwest Florida region is handled by Pensacola International Airport.
Airlines presently serving Pensacola International Airport are American Eagle, Delta Connection, Delta Air Lines, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines and United Express.
From early 1993 through August 2005 Pensacola was served by the tri-weekly Amtrak Sunset Limited, but service east of New Orleans to Jacksonville and Orlando was suspended due to damage to the rail line of CSX amid Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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