Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Inverness, FL

Inverness is a small city in Florida's Nature Coast region that was first settled in 1868 by A. D. Tompkins and originally called Tompkinsville.

Inverness was incorporated on March 6, 1919, and it has served as the county seat of Citrus County since 1891.

Inverness won the county seat from the rival town of Mannfield in an 1891 election, and county records were famously moved to Inverness overnight by horse and wagon - the county clerk was reportedly carried in his chair in what locals remember as the 'midnight raid.'

Citrus County itself was created on June 2, 1887, out of Hernando County, just four years before Inverness became its seat.

Inverness was renamed for Inverness, Scotland, after a Scotsman remarked that the Tsala Apopka Lake country resembled the headlands and lochs of the Scottish Highlands.

Inverness had a population of 7,543 at the 2020 Census, up slightly from 7,210 in 2010, with an estimated 7,796 residents in 2025, in a city of about 7.7 square miles.

The Historic Citrus County Courthouse in Inverness, built in 1912 with a distinctive copper cupola and clock tower and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, was used for Elvis Presley's courtroom scenes in the 1961 film 'Follow That Dream' and now houses the Old Courthouse Heritage Museum.

Inverness sits on the western shore of the Tsala Apopka and Henderson lake chain and near the 10,950-acre Flying Eagle Preserve, one of the largest conservation areas in Citrus County.

Whispering Pines Park, Inverness' 290-acre city park, packs in walking and mountain-bike trails, a junior Olympic-size pool, disc golf courses, and tennis and pickleball courts, and a segment of the Florida National Scenic Trail runs through it.

The 46-mile Withlacoochee State Trail, one of Florida's longest paved rail trails, runs directly through Inverness past lakefront Liberty Park and Wallace Brooks Park on Lake Henderson.