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Spanish Harbor Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys.

U.S. 1 (the Overseas Highway) crosses the keys at approximately mile markers 35--36, between Bahia Honda Key and West Summerland Key.

Originally, there were three keys at this location. They were connected by fills at the time the Overseas Railroad was built. The Keys were West Summerland Key (westernmost), Middle Summerland Key (center), and no name is known for the easternmost key. West Summerland retains its name, but the other two are known simply as the Spanish Harbor Keys; named for the anchorage located between this key and Big Pine Key. Interesting features of this key include Indian mounds and storage buildings still standing from the Flagler Railway construction era.

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Biscayne National Park	Soldier Ragged Boca Chita Sands Elliott Adams Caesar's Rock Meig's Rubicon Reid Porgy Totten Old Rhodes Islandia
Upper keys	Key Largo Island CDP North Tavernier Plantation Island former CDP Windley Upper Matecumbe Tea Table Indian Lignumvitae Lower Matecumbe Islamorada
Middle keys	Craig Fiesta Long Layton Conch Little Duck Key Island CDP Grassy Crawl Little Long Point Fat Deer Vaca Marathon Key Colony Beach Boot Knights
Lower keys	Pigeon Money Little Duck Missouri Ohio Sunshine Bahia Honda Spanish Harbor Scout (West Summerland) No Name Big Pine Torch Little Middle Big Ramrod Summerland Knockemdown Cudjoe Sugarloaf Park Lower Sugarloaf Saddlebunch Shark Geiger Big Coppitt Island CDP East Rockland Rockland Boca Chica Raccoon Stock Island Island CDP Key West Sigsbee Fleming Sunset Wisteria
Outlying islands	Mule Keys Mule Crawfish Archer Joe Ingram Big Mullet Barracouta Cottrell Man Little Mullet Ballast Woman Boca Grande Marquesas Keys Dry Tortugas Loggerhead Key Tortugas Banks (submerged)
Areas	Florida Bay Dry Tortugas National Park Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary National Key Deer Refuge John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Biscayne Bay Biscayne National Park Key West National Wildlife Refuge Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge Florida Reef
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 [[U.S. Route 1 in Florida|U.S. 1]] (the [[Overseas Highway]]) crosses the keys at approximately mile markers 35--36, between [[Bahia Honda Key]] and [[West Summerland Key]].
-Originally, there were three keys at this location.  They were connected by fills at the time the [[Overseas Railroad]] was built.  The Keys were West Summerland Key (westernmost), Middle Summerland Key (center), and no name is known for the easternmost key.  West Summerland retains its name, but the other two are known simply as the Spanish Harbor Keys; named for the anchorage located between this key and Big Pine Key.  Interesting features of this key include Indian mounds and storage buildings still standing from the Flagler Railway construction era.  There is no known connection between the naming of [[Summerland Key]] and West Summerland Key.  Confusingly, West Summerland Key is about 10 miles ''east'' of Summerland Key.
+Originally, there were three keys at this location.  They were connected by fills at the time the [[Overseas Railroad]] was built.  The Keys were West Summerland Key (westernmost), Middle Summerland Key (center), and no name is known for the easternmost key.  West Summerland retains its name, but the other two are known simply as the Spanish Harbor Keys; named for the anchorage located between this key and Big Pine Key.  Interesting features of this key include Indian mounds and storage buildings still standing from the Flagler Railway construction era.
-It is the site of two adjoining [[Scouting in Florida|Scout camps]], [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] Camp Sawyer and [[Girl Scouts of America|Girl Scout]] Camp Wesumkee.  [[Camp Wesumkee]] is the site of the [[Winter Star Party]], an annual gathering of amateur astronomers.
-Its ecology has suffered recent hurricane damage.  The dock at Camp Sawyer which was rebuilt after a 2004 storm became, in turn, scrap lumber in 2005.  The storm surges came in from the east and eliminated many more trees on the Camp Wesumkee side of the Key that at Camp Sawyer, which still had many fifty year old buttonwood trees taken out.
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