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Plantation
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city in Broward County, Florida, United States
Plantation is a city located in Broward County, Florida. It is one of the municipalities in the Miami metropolitan area and serves as a residential and commercial community in South Florida.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Broward
- Incorporated
- April 23, 1953
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Mayor
- Nick Sortal
- Council president
- Jennifer Andreu
- Councilmembers
- Erik Anderson, Denise Appleby Horland, Louis Reinstein, and, Pro Tem President Timothy J. Fadgen
- Chief administrative officer
- Jason Nunemaker
- City clerk
- April Beggerow
- City
- 22.05 sq mi (57.12 km )
- Land
- 21.75 sq mi (56.33 km )
- Water
- 0.30 sq mi (0.78 km ) 0.87%
- Elevation
- 9.0 ft (2.75 m)
- Density
- 4,218.2/sq mi (1,628.66/km )
- Metro
- 6,166,488
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 91750
- Area
- 56.794855
- Elevation
- 2.75
- Official website
- www.plantation.org
- Image
- Plantation FL Hist Museum01.jpg
- Households
- 34532
- Dialing code
- 954
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- Commons category
- Plantation, Florida
- postal code
- 33388
- inception
- 1953-01-01
- P8168
- Lepyu
- water as percent of area
- 0.8504
- per capita income
- 39326
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Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area. As of the 2020 US census, the population was 91,750.
History