English: View looking across Lake Okeechobee from en:Pahokee, Florida January 26, 2006
Date 17 August 2006 (original upload date)

English: Engraving of the Battle of Lake Okeechobee from 1847
Date 1847

English: President Donald J. Trump, joined Florida Governor Ron DeSantis addresses his remarks Friday, March 29, 2019, during President Trump's visit to the 143-mile Herbert Hoover Dike in Lake Okeechobee, Fla. The dike, which surrounds Lake Okeechobee, is part of the Kissimmee-Okeechobee Everglades system which reduces impacts of flooding for areas of south Florida.
Date Taken on 29 March 2019, 15:49:16

English: "South Florida from Earth orbit. Can you recognize the cities?" Caption by astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. The Miami, Tampa, & Orlando metropolitan areas are easily visible.
Date 02 April 2013, 04:00:27

Florida East Coast Railway’s Kissimmee River Branch served the rich produce fields around Lake Okeechobee, this wreck occurred one mile north of Holopaw, FL in 1942.

Summary
Description
Local call number: N038743

Title: Train wreck: Holopaw, Florida

Date: 1942

Physical descrip: 1 photonegative; b&w; 4 x 5 in.

Series Title: General collection

General note: Train wreck occurred one mile north of Holopaw, Florida.

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/147007
Date
1942 Edit this at Structured Data on Commons

English: The sun's glint beams off the Atlantic Ocean creating a bright golden sheen as the International Space Station orbited off the coast of the United States.
Date Taken on 23 November 2020

English: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey launch USC&GS Elsie III on Lake Okeechobee in Florida

English: Water in south Florida once flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and southward over low-lying lands to the estuaries of Biscayne Bay, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay. This shallow, slow-moving sheet of water covered almost 11,000 square miles, creating a mosaic of ponds, sloughs, sawgrass marshes, hardwood hammock, and forested uplands. For thousands of years this intricate system evolved into a finely balanced ecosystem that formed the biological infrastructure for the southern half of the state. However, to early colonial settlers and developers the Everglades were potential farm land and communities. By the early 1900s', the drainage process to transform wetland to land ready to be developed was underway. The results would be severely damaging to the ecosystem and the species it supported.
With the support of many early conservationists, scientists, and other advocates, Everglades National Park was established in 1947 to conserve the natural landscape and prevent further degradation of its land, plants, and animals. Although the captivation of the Everglades has mostly stemmed from its unique ecosystem, an alluring human story of the Everglades is deeply interwoven with its endless marshes, dense mangroves, towering palms, alligator holes, and tropical fauna. Various groups and people navigated through and wrestled with the watery landscape to make it home, and even to exploit its natural wonder at times.

NPS Photo by Federico Acevedo

Image: Dwarf cypress trees are all staggered within the frame, between water and grass. The sky is blue and cloudy.

Water in south Florida once flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and southward over low-lying lands to the estuaries of Biscayne Bay...
(7,367 × 4,914 (27.55 MB)) - 01:17, 25 February 2025

islands, the vast Everglades landscape channels life-giving waters from Lake Okeechobee southward. Everglades National Park contains two distinct sloughs....
(4,480 × 6,720 (25.94 MB)) - 16:03, 22 November 2025

Lake Okeechobee hosts different types of flora like bulrush, eelgrass, hydrilla, and peppergrass. Some common species of fish that are found in the Lake include bluegill, black crappie, largemouth bass, Okeechobee catfish, and speckled perch.