Living in Southeast Arcadia, Florida

Unincorporated: there's no city government; DeSoto County provides roads, zoning and law enforcement.

Nearest 24-hour emergency room

DeSoto Memorial Hospital, in Arcadia, about 2 miles away.²

Straight-line distance from the town's center; driving is longer. Freestanding ERs and urgent care aren't counted.

Life in the Heartland

Florida's cattle, citrus and lake country, between the two coasts: Sebring and Avon Park on the ridge, Wauchula and Arcadia on the Peace River, and Okeechobee, Clewiston and LaBelle around the big lake.^{4,5,6,7,8,9,10}

Hazards: Hurricanes cross the peninsula: storms that come ashore on either coast can reach the region with damaging wind, falling trees, long outages and river flooding. Mobile and manufactured homes should evacuate.⁷

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Other places in DeSoto County

• Arcadia · 7,707 people · home value $177,700

"Median" means half are above and half below. Figures are U.S. Census Bureau estimates for Southeast Arcadia as a Census-defined place; the area a mailing address calls Southeast Arcadia can be larger.