23 Facts About Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city located in the U S state of Florida, 30 miles north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean.

Greater Fort Lauderdale, encompassing all of Broward County, hosted more than 13 million overnight visitors in 2018.

Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century.

Fort Lauderdale was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob.

When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major U S base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators.

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Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.

Fort Lauderdale is known for its extensive network of canals; there are 165 miles of waterways within the city limits.

City of Fort Lauderdale is adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, includes 7 miles of beaches, and borders the following municipalities:.

Northwestern section of Fort Lauderdale is separate from the remainder of the city, connected only by the Cypress Creek Canal as it flows under I-95.

Fort Lauderdale has a program for designating and recognizing neighborhoods.

In 2000, Fort Lauderdale had the twenty-sixth highest percentage of Haitian residents in the US, at 6.

Fort Lauderdale is a major manufacturing and maintenance center for yachts.

Fort Lauderdale was recently listed as 2017's third best city out of 150 U S cities by WalletHub for summer jobs, and the 24th best city to start a career in.

Since the 1990s, Fort Lauderdale has increasingly catered to those seeking the resort lifestyle seasonally or year-round, and is often a host city to many professional venues, concerts, and art shows.

Fort Lauderdale purchased ocean-front property for about a dollar per acre, he eventually owned a 3.

Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale was the home of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which played in the most recent incarnation of the North American Soccer League.

Fort Lauderdale is home to the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex, which is at the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Fort Lauderdale is served by English-language newspapers South Florida-Sun Sentinel and The Miami Herald, Spanish-language newspapers El Sentinel, El Nuevo Herald, and an alternative newspaper New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

Brightline has a station in Fort Lauderdale, which connects to Miami and West Palm Beach with multiple trains daily.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood is an emerging international gateway for the Caribbean and Latin America.

Fort Lauderdale is home to Port Everglades, the nation's third busiest cruise port.

Fort Lauderdale is served by a regular international passenger ferry service to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas operated by Balearia Bahamas Express.

Fort Lauderdale is served by Broward General Medical Center and Imperial Point Medical Center, which are operated by Broward Health, the third largest hospital consortium in the United States.