Lake Iamonia
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Lake Iamonia is a large prairie lake in northern Leon County, Florida.
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[edit] Origin of Name
Lake Iamonia is prounced Ammonia and is named after a Seminole town “Hiamonee,” which was located on the banks of the Ochlockonee River.
[edit] Location
The lake is located in the Red Hills Region and is approximately 5757 acres (23 km²) in size and is 7 miles long and up to 2 miles wide. It has a drainage basin of roughly 101 square miles (260 km). (Wagner and Musgrove, 1983).
[edit] Specifics
Lake Iamonia is classified as Oligotrophic to Mesotrophic. The lake is 95 feet above sea level and the sink basin, located on the northern shore of Lake Iamonia has a surface area of 19.52 acres at 95 ft, and a maximum depth of 40 feet.
The volume of water in the lake is affected by water in its own drainage basin and by water from the Ochlockonee River and rainfall in Southwestern Georgia. The eastern end of Lake Iamonia is oligotrophic which makes it one of the cleanest lakes in Leon County.
County Road 12 runs along the northern part of the lake. Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy is perched on the north side of the lake. The eastern side comes near US 319, the south side is bordered by the developments of Killearn Lakes Plantation and Luna Pines. The west side comes near State Road 155 (N. Meridian Road).
The lake is surrounded by 4000 acres (16 km²) of land under conservation easement.
In the mid 19th century, Lake Iamonia had Burgesstown Plantation, Pine Hill Plantation, Oaklawn Plantation, and G.W. Holland Plantation surrounding it. During dry periods, plantation owners would graze cattle and sheep on the lake.
Latitude: 30.633120 Longitude: -84.177674 Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 31200
