There are 67 counties in Florida but only one county was ever completely erased off the map; Fayette County in the Florida Panhandle. Fayette County was established on February 9, 1832 after a majority of the members of Jackson County, in which it presided, agreed to the split. However, the county was doomed to fail. The boundaries were never specified and many people were up-in-arms about having to switch counties, going so far as to continue voting as if they lived in Jackson County instead of Fayette. Half the population, half the territory, and two thirds of the wealth had gone back to Jackson County in 1833 which made people very upset. In 1834, a petition was signed pleading for the counties boundaries to be changed or for it to be dissolved completely. In the end, the county disappeared.