Editing Everglades (section)

==Names==
[[File:1857 Everglades map.jpg|thumb|This map made by the U.S. military shows the term "Everglades" was in use by 1857.]]

The first written record of the Everglades was on Spanish maps made by [[cartographer]]s who had not seen the land. They named the unknown area between the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Florida {{Lang|es|Laguna del Espíritu Santo}} ("Lake of the Holy Spirit").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/floridamaps/view_image.php?image_name=dlp00020000580001001&group=english|title=Old Florida Maps|publisher=scholar.library.miami.edu|access-date=2008-08-22|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404135755/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/floridamaps/view_image.php?image_name=dlp00020000580001001&group=english|url-status=dead}}</ref> The area was featured on maps for decades without having been explored. Writer James Grant Forbes stated in 1811, "The Indians represent [the Southern points] as impenetrable; and the [British] surveyors, wreckers, and coasters, had not the means of exploring beyond the borders of the sea coast, and the mouths of rivers".<ref name="mcmullen">{{cite journal | last1 = McMullen | first1 = Wallace | year = 1953 | title = The Origin of the Term Everglades | journal = American Speech | volume = 28 | issue = 1| pages = 26–34 | doi=10.2307/454403| jstor = 454403 }}</ref>

British surveyor [[John William Gerard de Brahm|John Gerard de Brahm]], who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773, called the area "River Glades". The name "Everglades" first appeared on a map in 1823, although it was also spelled as "Ever Glades" as late as 1851.<ref name="dovell"/> The [[Seminole]] call it ''Pahokee'', meaning "Grassy Water".<ref name="Douglasname">Douglas, pp.&nbsp;7–8.</ref> The region was labeled "''Pa-hai-okee''" on a U.S. military map from 1839, although it had earlier been called "Ever Glades" throughout the [[Second Seminole War]].<ref name="mcmullen"/>

A 2007 survey by geographers Ary J. Lamme and Raymond K. Oldakowski found that the "Glades" has emerged as a distinct vernacular [[List of regions of the United States#Florida|region]] of Florida. It comprises the interior areas and southernmost [[Gulf Coast]] of [[South Florida]], largely corresponding to the Everglades itself. It is one of the most sparsely populated areas of the state.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Lamme |first1= Ary J. |last2= Oldakowski |first2= Raymond K. |year= 2007 |title= Spinning a New Geography of Vernacular Regional Identity: Florida in the Twenty-First Century |journal= Southeastern Geographer |volume= 47 |issue= 2 |pages= 329 & 334 |publisher= University of North Carolina Press |doi= 10.1353/sgo.2007.0029|s2cid= 129577530 }}</ref>