Editing List of counties in Florida (section)

==Renamed counties==
Five counties in Florida have been renamed. Most renamings occurred between 1845 and 1861, during the first sixteen years of Florida's statehood. One occurred in 1997, when Dade County changed its name to [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]].
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|[[Benton County, Florida|Benton County]]
|1844–1850
|[[Thomas Hart Benton (senator)|Thomas Benton]] (1782–1858), U.S. Senator from Missouri who supported the [[Armed Occupation Act of 1842]] that many Floridians wanted in order to evict [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]
|Original name of county was [[Hernando County, Florida|Hernando County]], and the name was changed back to that in 1850
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|[[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Dade County]]
|1836–1997
|[[Francis L. Dade]] ({{circa|1793}}–1835), [[Major (United States)|Major]] in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Second Seminole War]]
|Changed to [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]] in 1997, in order to benefit from the City of Miami's internationally recognizable name
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|[[Mosquito County, Florida|Mosquito County]]
|1824–1845
|Taken from the name the [[Spain|Spanish]] had given the entire coast, "Los Mosquitos"
|Mosquito had already repeatedly ceded land to other counties by 1845, when it was renamed [[Orange County, Florida|Orange County]]
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|[[New River County, Florida|New River County]]
|1858–1861
|The [[New River (Santa Fe River)|New River]]
|Renamed to [[Bradford County, Florida|Bradford County]] in 1861
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|[[St. Lucie County, Florida (1844-1855)|St. Lucie County]]
|1844–1855
|[[Saint Lucy]] (283–304), the [[Christian martyrs|Christian martyr]]
|Renamed [[Brevard County, Florida|Brevard County]] in 1855
|}