 State Road 471 | ||||
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| Maintained byFDOT | ||||
| Length | 34.909 mi[1] (56.181 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 98 nearBranchborough | |||
| Major intersections |  SR 50 atTarrytown | |||
| North end |  US 301 nearSumterville | |||
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| Country | United States | |||
| State | Florida | |||
| Counties | Polk,Pasco,Sumter | |||
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State Road 471 (SR 471) is a two-lane rural highway primarily inSumter County in the state ofFlorida. It runs north and south fromU.S. Route 98 (US 98) in northwesternPolk County toUS 301 nearSumterville inSumter County.
State Road 471 begins at US 98 in northwestern Polk County, which is just southeast of Branchborough inPasco County and the eastern terminus of County Road 54, a county extension ofSR 54. The road soon leaves Polk County and runs along the Pasco-Polk County Line. Here the road runs entirely through preserved forest land and swampland, including theGreen Swamp. Contrary to what many maps indicate it is not as straight through this area shifting from left to right and vice versa on a random basis. Crossing theWithlacoochee River, the Pasco-Polk border is replaced by the Pasco-Sumter border, and the landscape described earlier continues. Eventually it enters part of theWithlacoochee State Forest, and some distance later, the Pasco-Sumter Line is replaced by the Hernando-Sumter Line. After leaving the forest the road crosses over the Little Withlacoochee River where the Hernando-Sumter border turns west, and SR 471 is now entirely in Sumter County. Eventually, the road slows down intoTarrytown, Florida where it approaches a lumber mill, and crosses the former right-of-way for theOrange Belt Railway just south of the intersection ofState Road 50.
North of Tarrytown, SR 471 becomes as straight as road maps incorrectly indicate it to be south of Tarrytown. Most of this segment of the road runs primarily through farmland interrupted only by the occasional rural road, and county road without shields. However the amount of farmland is reduced, but not eliminated, once it runs through theCity of Webster, a popular farm-to-market trading post. Within Webster, SR 471 serves as a terminus of County Road 478A and 4/10 of a mile later intersects County Road 478, which spans from US 301 in the St. Catherine/Croom-A-Coochie area to Center Hill. SR 471 shares a 3/10 mile concurrency with CR 478 between Southeast First Street and Northwest Fourth Street. Outside of the Webster city limits, farmland becomes more prominent again, and the road becomes part of an unincorporated community named Belville's Corner, which is also the intersection withCounty Road 48, a tri-county extension ofState Road 48. North of Belville's Corner, the road intersects the eastern terminus of County Road 476 and western terminus of County Road 567. Near Sumterville, SR 471 shifts slightly to the northwest and runs in close proximity to a formerSeaboard Air Line Railroad line that ran towardsWinter Haven, and carried Amtrak trains until 1988. Two county roads of minor significance include County Road 528 and later 526, both of which lead to a campus of theLake-Sumter Community College. Like those two streets, SR 471 terminates atUS 301. However, unlike these two the segment of US 301 is also shared with County Road 470.
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Polk | | 0.000 | 0.000 | US 98 (SR 35 /SR 700) –Lakeland,Dade City | Southern terminus |
| Sumter | Tarrytown | 21.157 | 34.049 | SR 50 –Brooksville,Groveland | |
| Webster | 24.435 | 39.324 |   CR 478A south | ||
| 24.850 | 39.992 |   CR 478 east (Southeast First Avenue) | South end of CR 478 overlap | ||
| 25.197 | 40.551 |  CR 478 west (Northwest Fourth Avenue) | North end of CR 478 overlap | ||
| Bevilles Corner | 27.715 | 44.603 |  CR 48 –Bushnell,Center Hill | ||
| | 28.722 | 46.224 |   CR 476 west /CR 567 east | ||
| | 34.909 | 56.181 |  US 301 (SR 35) /CR 470 –Coleman,Bushnell | Northern terminus | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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