Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in McIntosh, FL

McIntosh is a small incorporated town in northern Marion County, Florida, and part of the Ocala metropolitan area.

The town is named for Colonel John Houstoun McIntosh, who kept a plantation in the area in the early 1820s until it was destroyed, and his sugar mill burned, by Seminoles during the Second Seminole War.

In 1849 merchant Nehemiah Brush bought land that included about 4,000 acres of the old Arredondo Spanish land grant, and his son Charles Brush later developed the present-day townsite into building lots and ten-acre citrus plots.

The current town of McIntosh was platted in 1885, and a post office has been in operation there since 1887.

The Town of McIntosh was officially incorporated as a municipality on May 22, 1913.

McIntosh had 463 residents at the 2020 census, living in just 148 households — barely changed from its 452 residents in 2010.

The whole town covers only about 0.7 square miles, all of it land.

U.S. Route 441 runs straight through McIntosh, putting it about 19 miles south of Ocala, the Marion County seat, and 17 miles southeast of Gainesville, with Orange Lake on its eastern edge.

The McIntosh Historic District, preserving the town's old Florida character, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 18, 1983.

McIntosh has a humid subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and generally mild winters.