Lynnhaven County, Verona

Lynnhaven County, officially the County of Lynnhaven, is a in the Commonwealth of Verona. It is located within the Palm Coast metropolitan area, northwest of the San Miguel River, which divides it from Sierra County. It also borders Victoria County to the south, Harris County to the east, Lake County to the north and northwest, and the Urlazian Sea to the north and east. With a population of 3,001,926 people as of the 2020 census, Lynnhaven county is the sixth-most populous county in Verona, averaging 580 PD/km2, putting the county at sixth for density as well. It is the fourth most populous of the five Palm Coast counties, and a largely suburban in character outside of Lynnhaven city proper. Its county seat is the city of Lynnhaven, which is also its most populous city with 1.4 million residents, making it the second-largest city in Verona.

History
Lynnhaven County was created from a portion of the Sierra Municipio in 1786, due to difficulty crossing the San Miguel River so far downstream. The General Assembly originally created it as a general law county, but it was chartered in 1790.

Government and politics
Lynnhaven County is a charter county of Verona; its seat is the identically named city of Lynnhaven.

The county is divided into eight magisterial districts–Astulés, Beach Cities, Chieri, Courthouse Run (central and southwest Lynnhaven), Marbella, Miasa, North County, and South Lynnhaven (southern Lynnhaven). The magisterial districts each elect one supervisor to the Board of Supervisors which governs Lynnhaven County. There is also a chairman elected by the county at-large, bringing total board membership to nine. A vice-chairman is selected by the board from among its membership. The county operates under the county form of the county executive system of government, with an elected Board of Supervisors. The board confirms a professional, nonpartisan county executive to manage operations of government agencies, such as, -, -, -, -, and -. Except for the Board of Supervisors, each of these elected officers are elected by the voters of the entire county and oversee their own County departments.

Adjacent counties

 * Lake County – north
 * Santa Maria County – west
 * Victoria County – southwest
 * Sierra County – south/southeast

Education
Lynnhaven County is served by eleven school districts, the largest of which is Lynnhaven Indepedent School District, which enrolls 190,207 students in its 211 schools as of 2022. It is also served by the Arrecife, Avila, Jupiter, La Palma, LaPuerta, Lynnhaven Beach, North Lynnhaven, Sevilla, Vega, and Zahara Independent School Districts, serving their respective communities.

The county is also served by the Verona Commonwealth University, Lynnhaven, which is located in the city of Lynnhaven.

Transportation
The Palm Coast Metro Transit Authority (PCMTA) is the metropolitan transit authority for the entirety of the Palm Coast metro region (there is overlap in Rosslyn with its city metro). It operates the bus, light rail, and metrorail systems within the county and is an arm of the Palm Coast Consortium of Metropolitan County Governments (PCCMCG). It has the largest transit fleet in the country and serves roughly 35 million residents. Due the sheer area of the metro region, each county is broken up into districts. Lynnhaven County is broken into four districts: Central, North, South, and Beach. These districts have their own representatives that plan the area and work with residents to develop the best transit plans for them. All cities and communities within Lynnhaven County have bus access, while light rail and metro rail extends through the cities of Lynnhaven and Jupiter, with feeder buses to other communities.

The PCCMCG also operates Lynnhaven Airport, which sits in a unincorporated section of the county between the city of Lynnhaven and the CDP of Lenice. Most regional airlines provide flights to various parts of the country, while major airlines (Azul being the exception) transfer passengers to Sierra International Airport for most of their flights.

Lynnhaven County is served by the Palm Coast Beltway via the city of Lynnhaven, which links it with Buenaventura, La Joya, Los Sueños, Mirada, and Sierra. It is also connected to Santa Rosa County via Sierra County by the Beach Counties Corridor, which runs the coastal length from Jupiter to Rosslyn.

Cities

 * Arrecife Beach
 * Avilla
 * Jupiter
 * La Palma
 * LaPuerta
 * Lynnhaven (county seat)
 * Lynnhaven Beach
 * Marbella
 * North Lynnhaven
 * Sevilla
 * Vega
 * Zahara

Census-designated places

 * Ascolieri
 * Caltádica
 * Cedillo
 * Chieri
 * Gimenia
 * Kinley
 * Lenice
 * Miasa
 * Penicer
 * Pomería
 * Ruso
 * Sania
 * Varelusia

Planned communities
The cities of Arrecife Beach and Jupiter were planned cities, originally with four and nine communities, respectively. Jupiter, now the second largest city in Lynnhaven County, has annexed many inland parcels, expanding towards the county center, while Arrecife Beach has only annexed a small section of land to build a park, remaining relatively unchanged. Other planned communities exist within the other cities and CDPs, but no other master-planned cities are currently incorporated in the county.