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Troy Spring

Florida Springsspring Florida state park

Coordinates 30.0058, -82.9969 (from Wikidata Q7846966, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point. · Wikipedia

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What you might see, by month

Counts of species records within about 1 km of this point, from GBIF.org, filtered to CC0 and CC BY 4.0 licenses only (land animals and birds excluded). These come from survey effort, so more records do not mean more animals. They are not a sighting forecast. 1,715 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 126 records
  • eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) (1)
Feb 120 records
  • No qualifying records
Mar 84 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 68 records
  • No qualifying records
May 79 records
  • No qualifying records
Jun 45 records
  • No qualifying records
Jul 91 records
  • No qualifying records
Aug 34 records
  • No qualifying records
Sep 282 records
  • No qualifying records
Oct 582 records
  • No qualifying records
Nov 52 records
  • No qualifying records
Dec 150 records
  • No qualifying records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) (1)
  2. Gemophos tinctus (1)

Reef heat stress

Not applicable: this is a freshwater spring. NOAA Coral Reef Watch monitors coral reef sea-surface temperatures.

Conditions links

Depths, entry details and mooring info aren't listed yet because we haven't verified them from a citable source.

Data citation

GBIF.org (2026-10-14) GBIF Occurrence Data, queried via the GBIF API: https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?decimalLatitude=29.9958,30.015800000000002&decimalLongitude=-83.0069,-82.98689999999999&license=CC0_1_0&license=CC_BY_4_0&taxonKey=44&taxonKey=206&taxonKey=229&taxonKey=136&taxonKey=225&occurrenceStatus=PRESENT&limit=0. Records by license: CC_BY_4_0: 1,714, CC0_1_0: 1. Contributing datasets (top 15):