TOHOPKEE

NAME: Tohopkee
COUNTY: Osceola
ROADS: 4WD
GRID: 3
CLIMATE: Hot in Summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: January thru March 		COMMENTS: Listed on USGS Topographical Maps in 1972, not listed in 1977 map. Located about 2 miles north of US 192/US 441 interchange on private property.
REMAINS: None Known

Probable Rail Town Submitted by: Gerald McMillen

Tohopkee was a small lumber town along the Florida East Coast Railroad's Kissimmee Valley Extension.  The town name is a Creek Indian word for Fort or Fence.  Postal records indicate it had mail service from 1923 to 1927.  The KV railway line was discontinued in 1947 and the town disappeared.  Very little information is available about Tohopkee.  Today the site is part of the vast Deseret Cattle and Citrus land, privately owned and very hard to reach.    Submitted by Jim Pike

 
The road to Tohopkee
Courtesy Jim Pike

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