Iona (Iona)
A strong EF2 tornado struck the town on January 16, 2022, causing major damage and injuring three people.
Iona is located in southwestern Lee County at 26.51667°N, -81.96667°W (26.510,-81.959). It is bordered to the west by Punta Rassa, to the east by Harlem Heights, and to the northeast by McGregor. Its northern boundary is the tidal Caloosahatchee River, across which is the city of Cape Coral. The southern edge of the community is Summerlin Road (County Road 869). McGregor Boulevard crosses the community from northeast to southwest. Iona is 4 mi northeast of the causeway to Sanibel Island and 11 mi southwest of the center of Fort Myers.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Iona CDP has a total area of 26.5 km2, of which 17.1 km2 are land and 9.4 km2, or 35.32%, are water, primarily in the Caloosahatchee River estuary.
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Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years. Beginning in 1607, British colonization led to the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies in what is now the Eastern United States. They quarreled with the British Crown over taxation and political representation, leading to the American Revolution and proceeding Revolutionary War. The United States declared independence on July 4, 1776, becoming the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of unalienable natural rights, consent of the governed, and liberal democracy. The country began expanding across North America, spanning the continent by 1848. Sectional division surrounding slavery in the Southern United States led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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