Census Data for Shenks
As far as we can tell, Shenks has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Shenks, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Waldo
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Keystone Heights
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hampton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Hawthorne
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Starke
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Gainesville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Brooker
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- La Crosse
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Interlachen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Micanopy
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lawtey
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Worthington Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
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- Alachua
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Lake Butler
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Raiford
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Alachua County ...
Shenks is located in Alachua County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Alachua County.
Miscellaneous Information for Shenks ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Alachua County or the community of Shenks:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Shenks:
- GNIS ID for Shenks: 295622
- GNIS ID for Alachua County: 308548
- GNIS ID for State of Florida: 294478
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 12 (Florida)
- County Code: 001 (Alachua County)
- Place Code: 65715 (Shenks)
- State & County Code: 12/001 (Florida / Alachua County)
- State & Place Code: 12/65715 (Florida / Shenks)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Shenks is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Shenks.
Footnotes ...
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