Boot Key
{{Short description|Island in the middle Florida Keys, United States}}
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| coordinates = {{Coord|24.696|-81.102|type:isle_region:US-FL|display=it}}
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| waterbody = Florida Straits
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| country_admin_divisions_title_1 = County
| country_admin_divisions_1 = Monroe
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Boot Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys{{cite book | last=Zepke | first=T. | title=Terrance Talk Travel: A Pocket Guide to the Florida Keys: Including The Everglades & Key West | publisher=Safari Publishing | series=Terrance Talks Travel | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-942738-25-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHMqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT57 | access-date=September 7, 2017 | page=pt57}} located adjacent to Key Vaca. Boot Key is within the city limits of Marathon, Florida, United States. The island is largely undeveloped. A draw bridge that once connected the island to Key Vaca was demolished by the city in 2010 after failing FDOT's inspection.{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.marathon.fl.us/index.asp?nid%3D46 |title=The City of Marathon FL |access-date=July 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004032450/http://ci.marathon.fl.us/index.asp?NID=46 |archive-date=October 4, 2006 }}
"Boot Key has been protected from development since 2011 by NOAA’s Coastal & Estuarine Land Conservation Program."{{cite web |last1=aquaventures |title=Keys Less Traveled: Boot Key |url=http://flkeyskayak.com/key-less-traveled/keys-less-traveled-boot-key-2 |website=flkeyskayak.com |date=6 August 2015 |access-date=Sep 16, 2019}}
Immediately adjacent to Boot Key is a {{convert|38|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract of land from which the United States Government broadcasts Radio Marti.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-28845579_ITM {{dead link|date=April 2016}} These broadcasts consist of anti-communist news and information directed towards residents of Cuba, in an attempt to support opposition against the Cuban government.{{cite web |url=http://www.ibb.gov/ |title=Home |website=ibb.gov}}{{failed verification|date=April 2016}}
A hawk watch is conducted every fall on Boot Key.{{Cite web |title=(no title) |url=https://floridakeyshawkwatch.com/ |access-date=2023-06-01 |website=floridakeyshawkwatch.com |language=en}}
Education
It is in the Monroe County School District. It is zoned to Stanley Switick Elementary School (K-8) in Marathon.{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1T2ezzBv7uOPDkB8e4T3I1KrTlGl-vQi4&ll=24.95337951260486%2C-80.51270417265626&z=11|title=Elementary Schools: Boca Chica to Ocean Reef/County Line|publisher=Monroe County School District|accessdate=2022-08-01}} - [https://www.keysschools.com/Page/653 Linked from]
References
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Category:Islands of the Florida Keys
Category:Islands of Monroe County, Florida
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