In 1915, Palm Beach and Dade counties contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County. A year before Broward became governor, Dania became the first incorporated community of what is now Broward County, followed by Pompano in 1908, and Fort Lauderdale in 1911. This opened up much of today's urban Broward County for development, first as agricultural land and later as residential.
Throughout his term as governor, Broward championed Everglades drainage and was remembered for his campaign to turn the Everglades into "useful land". It was intended to be named Everglades County, but then- Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to name it in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909. Napoleon Bonaparte Broward (1857-1910) Founding of Broward īroward County was founded on April 30, 1915. The Tequesta are credited with making the Miami Circle. They buried the small bones of the deceased with the rest of the body, and put the larger bones in a box for the village people to see. The Tequesta Indians fished, hunted, and gathered the fruit and roots of plants for food, but did not practice any form of agriculture. The inhabitants at the time of first European contact were the Tequesta people, who controlled much of southeastern Florida, including what is now Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and the southern part of Palm Beach County. The first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River, with the main villages on the northern banks. The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 12,000 years ago. At its widest points, the County stretches approximately 50.3 miles east to west and approximately 27.4 miles from north to south, averaging 5 to 25 feet in elevation. The conservation area is 796.9 square miles and consists of wetlands. The largest portion of the county is the Conservation Area that extends to the county's Western border.
Broward County's urbanized area occupies 427.8 square miles of land. It's also Florida's seventh-largest county in terms of land area, with 1,322.8 square miles (3,426 km 2). The county has 31 municipalities (including 24 incorporated cities) and many unincorporated areas. It is also one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the entire country. Its county seat and largest city is Fort Lauderdale, which had a population of 182,760 as of 2020.īroward County is one of the three counties that make up the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6.14 million people in 2020. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with 1,944,375 residents as of the 2020 census. ər d/ BROURD, BROW-(w)ərd) is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area.
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