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Miccosukee is a tiny unincorporated community and census-designated place in northeastern Leon County, with a population of just 383 at the 2020 census - the first census in which it appeared as a CDP.

Miccosukee was a major center of the Miccosukee tribe, a Creek-origin group that became part of the developing Seminole nation, during the 18th century.

Miccosukee was mapped by the British in 1778 as Mikasuki, a town of 60 homes and 28 families with its own town square, and it served as the capital of the short-lived State of Muskogee.

Miccosukee was invaded by Andrew Jackson's forces in 1818 during the First Seminole War, when the village's leader, Chief Kinhagee, was defeated and most residents fled.

Miccosukee gained a U.S. post office in 1831, along with schools, churches and stores, and the surrounding red hills became home to some of Leon County's largest cotton plantations.

Miccosukee's fortunes faded after the boll weevil infestation of the late 1910s and the Great Depression destroyed Leon County's farm economy, and its railroad pulled out in the mid-1940s.

Miccosukee sits beside large, swampy Lake Miccosukee, a prairie lake whose level is controlled by an active sinkhole connected to the Floridan Aquifer, at the junction of County Roads 59 and 151.

Miccosukee is home to the Miccosukee Land Cooperative, an intentional community founded in 1973 on 344 acres, where about 100 households live alongside a collectively owned nature preserve of more than 90 acres.

Miccosukee's Concord School, built in 1894 for grades 1 through 6, survives as one of the community's reminders of its prosperous turn-of-the-century era.