Sumatra, Florida

About Sumatra

Sumatra is a small unincorporated community in northwestern Florida.

Sumatra holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.97 square miles.

📰 Sumatra News Today

• Sumatra, FL Weather Forecast – Hourly & 15-Day SpaceRef · Sep 3
• St. Augustine Wild Reserve welcomes rare clouded leopard Florida NewsLine · Aug 27
• Indonesian police arrest 72 people suspected of starting forest fires WKMG · Aug 23
• Obituary information for Euretha Yvette Kelley - Conner-Westbury Funeral Home Conner-Westbury Funeral Home · Dec 6
• New Ecology Blogger a Researcher, Artist, and Communicator wfsu.org · Mar 31

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

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What Makes Sumatra Unique

• The only place in America named Sumatra — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northwestern Florida, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 21 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Sumatra

• Apalachicola River Wildlife and Environmental Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Fort Gadsden Historic Site reviews ★
• Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Prospect Bluff Historic Sites reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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