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Location and area
Seminole County is in the east-central part of the Florida
peninsula. It is bounded on the north and east by the St. Johns River,
on the south by Orange County, and on the west by Orange County and the Wekiva River. It has a land area of 321 square miles.
Population and development
The population of the county, in 1930, according to the Federal Census, was 18,735. Sanford, the county seat and the largest town, is in the northern part of the county, on Lake Monroe. In 1930 it had a population of 10,000. Oviedo, in the south-central part of the county about 2 miles south of Lake Jessup, had a population of 1,042. The other towns in the area had less than 1,000 each.
The county leads in the production of celery in Florida and is one of the chief vegetable-growing centers of the State. During 1929 the value of the celery crop from farms with a total of 3,736 acres was reported by the United States Department of Commerce to be $2,889,673. Although the rainfall is fairly large, the vegetable crops, especially celery, require irrigation, and the water used for this purpose is obtained from artesian wells.
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