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Cudjoe Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, on an island of the same name in the lower Florida Keys. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 1,695.HistoryToponymyIt was originally called Littleton Island.Cudjoe Key may be named after the Joewood tree, a native species which is also known as cudjoewood, though a more likely derivation for the name is offered by writer John Viele of Summerland Key. He believes that Cudjoe, a very common Akan name, was the name of a fugitive slave or free negro who lived on the island at some point prior to Gerdes' survey in 1849.20th centuryThe United States Army activated Cudjoe Key Air Force Station in 1959 to track missiles traveling through the Eglin Gulf Test Range. The Air Force took over operations the following year, and it subsequently became a detached installation of Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base.