Aucilla River

The Aucilla River rises close to Thomasville, Georgia, USA, and passes through the Big Bend region of Florida, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachee Bay. The river is 89 miles (143 km) long and has a drainage basin of 747 square miles (1,930 km²). The Wacissa River is a tributary. In Florida, the Aucilla River forms the eastern border of Jefferson County, separating it from Madison County on the northern part, and from Taylor County to the south. The lower part of the river disappears underground and reappears several times, and is known as the Aucilla River Sinks. The Aucilla River is a rich source of late Pleistocene and early Holocene animal bones and human artifacts, and is the subject of the Aucilla River Prehistory Project, which includes the Page-Ladson prehistory site. During the first Spanish period in Florida the Aucilla River was the boundary between the Apalachee people and the Timucua-speaking Yustaga people.

Crossings

Jefferson and Taylor county division, at US 98 bridge

Jefferson and Madison county division, at US 27 bridge

US 19 crosses the Aucilla River

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Crossing	Carries	Location	Coordinates
Georgia
	GA 122	Thomasville
	(Ozell Road, Summerhill Road)	Thomasville
	US 84 GA 38	Eason
Rail bridge	CSX
	GA 33	Boston
	(Bridge S of Boston, road unknown)
	Twelve Mile Post Road	Grooverville
Florida
Sneads Smokehouse Lake	Jefferson CR 146	Ashville
	US 90	Aucilla
Rail bridge	CSX Tallahassee Subdivision
	Interstate 10
Abandoned bridge	Seven Bridges Road
	US 19 US 27	Lamont
Walker Springs Bridge	Jefferson CR 257 Taylor CR 14
Burnt Bridge	(abandoned)	Cabbage Grove
(Natural bridge of sorts, river underground in this area)	Goose Pasture Road	Goose Pasture
	US 98	Nutall Rise

See also

• List of fossil sites (with link directory)

Media related to Aucilla River at Wikimedia Commons

References

• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. Aucilla River - retrieved March 12, 2006
• The Aucilla River Sinks - retrieved March 12, 2006
• Aucilla River Prehistory Project - retrieved March 12, 2006
• Shukovsky, Paul. 1990. Aucilla River. in Marth, Del and Marty Marth, eds. The Rivers of Florida. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc. ISBN 0-910923-70-1.
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Aucilla River