Welcome to Anita ...
Although we found mention of Anita during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Anita was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
While we are confident that Anita was located in Citrus County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Anita to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Anita - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Anita, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Anita might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Anita would be found within the (352) area code.
Adding Anita to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
That's the case with Anita: The earliest book where we found it mentioned was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Anita on our Genealogy Page.
Communities Also Named Anita ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are two Florida communities named Anita: This one is located in Citrus County and the other is located in Hillsborough County.
Beyond Florida, there are 9 communities that are also named Anita - they are located in Alabama, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Anita.
Other Roadside Stops ...
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Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Citrus County: www.bocc.citrus.fl.us/
The official website for State of Florida: www.myflorida.com/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Anita and then turned east". While Anita could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Anita as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Anita could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |