Alachua County, Florida
…ə-LATCH-oo-ə) is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 278,468. The county seat is Gainesville, the home of the University of Florida. The first people known to have entered the area of Alachua County were Paleo-Indians, who left artifacts in the…