 Several national publications have placed Oviedo on their nationally ranked lists as one of the best places to live in the US.In the late 1870s, individuals living a few miles south of Lake Jesup needed an easily accessible post office in the Florida back country.Andrew Aulin, an early settler and shop-owner, decided to file paperwork for a post office, and in his first site location report, needed a name that was different from any other post office in Florida.