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Ft. Myers, FL
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. Together with the larger and more residential city of Cape Coral, it anchors the Cape Coral–Fort Myers metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Lee County and has a population of 834,573 as of 2023. Fort Myers is a gateway to the Southwest Florida region and a major tourist destination within the state. The winter estates of Thomas Edison ("Seminole Lodge") and Henry Ford ("The Mangoes") are major attractions. The city takes its name from a local former fort that was built during the Seminole Wars. The fort in turn took its name from Colonel Abraham Myers in 1850; Myers served in the United States Army, mostly the Quartermaster Department, in various posts from 1833 to 1861 and was the quartermaster general of the Confeder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities In Florida
Florida is a U.S. state, state located in the Southern United States. There are 267 Administrative divisions of Florida#Municipalities, cities, 123 towns, and 21 villages in the U.S. state of Florida, a total of 411 municipal corporation, municipalities. They are distributed across 67 List of counties in Florida, counties, in addition to 66 county governments. Jacksonville has the only consolidated city–county government in the state, so there is no Duval County, Florida, Duval County government. However, smaller municipal governments exist within the consolidated municipality, e.g., Baldwin, Florida, Baldwin and the Jacksonville Beaches. All but two of Florida's county seats are municipalities (the exceptions are Crawfordville, Florida, Crawfordville, county seat of rural Wakulla County, Florida, Wakulla County; and East Naples, Florida, East Naples, county seat of Collier County, Florida, Collier County). Municipalities in Florida may be called cities, towns, or villages, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
