Meig's Key

Meig's Key
Aerial view of Meig's Key, October 1987
Meig's Key is located in Florida
Meig's Key
Meig's Key
Meig's Key is located in North Atlantic
Meig's Key
Meig's Key (North Atlantic)
Geography
LocationAtlantic Ocean
Coordinates25°23′36″N 80°14′02″W / 25.3934°N 80.2340°W / 25.3934; -80.2340
Administration
StateFlorida
CountyMiami-Dade

Meig's Key is a small island north of the upper Florida Keys in Biscayne National Park. It is in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

It is located in southern Biscayne Bay, just north of Old Rhodes Key and Totten Key, just southeast off the southern tip of Elliott Key, and due south of Adams Key. It is on the south side of Caesar Creek, the creek that separates Elliott and Old Rhodes Keys.

History

Its previous names were Black Caesar's Key and Caesar Key.

It was probably renamed for William Meigs, who came to the Biscayne Bay area from Philadelphia in 1891.

Gerdes, in his "Reconnaissance of the Florida Reefs and all the Keys" (1849) states: "Black Caesar's Key is an island, small, between Old Rhodes Key & Elliot's Key (Old Rhodes being nearest to N. of Key Largo); the opening on both sides is called Black Caesar's Creek." An environmental impact statement published in 1978 by the Biscayne National Monument contains a map which shows Caesar Key here.[1]

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