Deltona, Florida Deltona, Florida City of Deltona Deltona City Hall, April 2015 Deltona City Hall, April 2015 Flag of Deltona, Florida Flag Official seal of Deltona, Florida Location in Volusia County and the state of Florida Location in Volusia County and the state of Florida Established November 18, 1962, as Deltona Lakes Incorporated December 31, 1995, as the City of Deltona Major State Road(s) Florida 415.svg Florida 472.svg Deltona is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Florida and the most crowded city in Volusia County.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 85,182.
The town/city is part of the Deltona Daytona Beach Ormond Beach, FL Metropolitan Travel Destination and the larger Orlando Deltona Daytona Beach, FL Combined Statistical Area.
The town/city was originally established as a prepared residentiary community, and was master-planned and advanced by the General Development Corporation and the Mackle Brothers.
Since its opening in 1962, the improve quickly interval from a small subdivision to becoming one of biggest cities in Central Florida by the end of the 20th century, largely in part by the Mackle Brothers' around the world marketing accomplishments highlighting small low maintenance homes offered at affordable prices.
The town/city is mostly residentiary, and primarily serves as a commuter town for the close-by cities of Orlando and Daytona Beach, as well as its encircling communities.
The region of current Deltona and encircling communities was originally inhabited by nomadic Timucuans, who found fish and fresh water plentiful in the area. After Florida became a state in 1845, steamboats began to make regular trips up the St.
What now constitutes the town/city was originally advanced in 1962 as Deltona Lakes by Elliott, Robert and Frank Mackle as a prepared residentiary improve through the purchase of 17,203 acres of land.
The evolution would open to potential territory buyers on November 18, 1962, and encompassed out-parcels for drainage retention, apartements, churches, parks, commercial centers, an industrialized area, a improve center, and a golf course. Deltona Lakes was heavily marketed throughout the United States, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Sales delegates would also market in places such as Germany, Puerto Rico, Latin America and the Far East. By November 1965, just one year after its opening, Deltona Lakes interval to a populace of nearly 1,600, nearly 1,000 homes were assembled or under construction, and had more than 120 miles of paved roads or roads being surfaced. By September 1966, Deltona Lakes came to attract more families, burgeoning to a populace of 2,413, and a student enrollment of more than 200, resulting in soaring property revenue of up to US$60 million. In April 1967, more than 30 civic, social, charitable and fraternal clubs would form, including a civic association, a men's and women's golf association, a shuffle board club, and a bicycle club. By 1970, Deltona Lakes had an estimated populace of 4,868 and would continue to expanded in populace throughout the 1970s and 1980s, reaching a populace of 51,828 by 1990. The inhabitants of Deltona Lakes would eventually vote to incorporate it as a town/city in September 1995, after two previous floundered attempts to do so in 1987 and 1990. A town/city charter was adopted on September 9, 1995, and a seven-member town/city commission was elected.
Deltona Lakes would turn into incorporated as a town/city on December 31, 1995, with its name shortened to Deltona.
The town/city interval to a populace of 69,543 citizens by the 2000 census, becoming the most crowded city in Volusia County.
After the city's incorporation, regular town/city meetings would be held on the second floor of the now-defunct South - Trust Bank building on Deltona Boulevard, until the first town/city hall began assembly in 2001. The US$7 million universal would complete for opening on March 16, 2002. On December 3, 2002, ground broke for the evolution of the Deltona satellite ground of Daytona State College (then known as Daytona Beach Community College), adjoining to Deltona City Hall.
Throughout the 2000s, the town/city would continue to expanded in population, while maintaining a mainly residentiary landscape.
As of the 2010 census, Deltona had a populace of 85,182.
In recent years, new measures have been taken by town/city officials to begin attracting new businesses and industries into the city.
Specially zoned areas in the town/city have been designated to allow for the evolution of upscale office facilities, light industrialized space, community care facilities, warehousing and distribution facilities, commercial recreational facilities, and lodging services. In 2011, the city's first movie theater opened. In August 2013, Bethune-Cookman University (based in Daytona Beach) opened a satellite ground in Deltona on Saxon Boulevard. Halifax Health opened the city's first urgent care facility on Saxon Boulevard in April 2014. Deltona is positioned in southwestern Volusia County in Central Florida approximately 25 miles (40 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Daytona Beach and Orlando.
It is encompassed in the Deltona Daytona Beach Ormond Beach Metropolitan Travel Destination and the larger Orlando Deltona Daytona Beach Combined Statistical Area.
The United States Geological Survey lists the city's altitude at 33 feet (10 m) above sea level at a point near Deltona's geographic center. Elevations range from 20 feet (6.1 m) to 112 feet (34 m) above sea level.
As of 2010, as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 41.1 square miles (106.4 km2), 37.5 square miles (97.1 km2) of which is territory and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2) of which is water.
The most powerful hurricane to strike Deltona since its incorporation was Charley in 2004, amid which the eye of the hurricane passed directly over the city; that same year, the town/city would also suffer from the effects of hurricanes Frances and Jeanne.
Climate data for Deltona, Florida Enumeration Deltona Volusia County Florida Enumeration data pointed out that 30.2% of the city's populace were Hispanic or Latino. The majority of Hispanic inhabitants in Deltona were Puerto Rican, and made up 20.7% of the population.
1.8% of the populace were Cuban, 1.6% of the populace were Mexican, 1.5% of the populace were Dominican, and 4.6% of the populace were of other Hispanic or Latino origin, as of 2010. Deltona operates under a commission manager form of government, consisting of seven propel officials, and an appointed town/city manager.
Residents elect, through non-partisan elections, a mayor who represents the town/city at-large and six commission members who each represent a specific precinct of the community.
Citywide enhance bus transit and paratransit service is provided by Votran, a enhance transit service governed by the County of Volusia.
Sun - Rail provides commuter rail service to the Orlando region in the neighboring town/city of De - Bary via Votran feeder bus service to the De - Bary station, and a 275-space park and ride. The closest primary passenger airport to Deltona is Orlando International Airport, positioned approximately 33 miles (53 km) south.
Deltona's only limited-access highway is Interstate 4, and traverses through the city's boundary.
Other primary highways include Florida State Road 472, which terminates near the town/city limit in northwestern Deltona at Howland Boulevard, and Florida State Road 415, which traverses through the city's southeastern boundary.
The city's waterworks and wastewater management is overseen by Deltona Water, a division of the City of Deltona's Public Works Department, with some areas managed by the Volusia County Water Resources and Utilities division. Its chief waterworks comes from the Floridan aquifer system, one of the most productive aquifers in the world. Commercial solid waste (trash and garbage collection), recycling and yard waste services are offered through Waste Pro.
32.4% of the populace worked in revenue and office occupations; 24.8% worked in management, business, science and arts occupations; 20.7% in service occupations; 11.5% in producation, transportation, and material moving occupations; and 10.6% in natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. The industries for which the city's inhabitants worked were 20.0% educational, health, and civil services; 15.4% retail trade; 10.7% professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services; 9.5% arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services; 7.7% manufacturing; 7.6% finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and leasing; 7.2% construction; 6.3% enhance administration; 5.1% transportation, warehousing and utilities; 4.5% other services (except enhance administration); 3.5% information; 2.2% wholesale trade; and 0.4% agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining. 82.7% of workers worked in the private sector, 12.7% in government, and 4.6% self-employed in unincorporated businesses.
Fitch, Moody's, and Standard & Poor's rated Deltona bonds as "AA-" between 2013 and 2014. Fitch attributed Deltona's small commercial zone to the town/city being a "largely residentiary and mostly built-out community", but did acknowledge the city's grade unemployment rate, dropping from a peak of 12% in 2010 to 6.4% in June 2014. As of 2014, the biggest employers in the town/city include Daytona State College, followed by Publix Supermarkets, and Walmart. According to the 2010 American Community Survey, 14.2% of all grownups over the age of 25 in Deltona have obtained a bachelor's degree, which was below the nationwide average of 27.2% of grownups over 25, and 84.7% of Deltona inhabitants over the age of 25 have earned a high school diploma, as compared to the nationwide average of 85.0%. Deltona had approximately 11,877 students enrolled in its enhance schools in the 2012-2013 school year. Three private schools are positioned in the city, offering both major and secondary education.
Higher education is offered by Bethune-Cookman University and Daytona State College through satellite campuses positioned in the city.
VCS operates 2 high schools, 3 middle schools and 7 elementary schools inside town/city limits. One elementary school is positioned in unincorporated Deltona, and four enhance schools in neighboring communities serve outer portions of the city.
In 2010, the Florida Department of Education awarded all enhance elementary and middle schools in the town/city "A" or "B" grades based on their performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. In 2013, both enhance high schools in the town/city received a "B." Schools in Deltona, Florida Deltona is a part of the Orlando Daytona Beach Melbourne media market, which is the 33rd biggest radio market and the eighteenth biggest tv market in the United States.
The town/city is also served by El Sentinel, the Spanish-language counterpart of the Orlando Sentinel.
The town/city has one enhance library, the Deltona Regional Library, a branch of the Volusia County Public Library fitness which consists of the chief library, an surroundingal learning center, and a 1,000-seat outside amphitheater assembled for improve gatherings and educational instruction. The 50,000 square foot (4,645 m2) facility received a Silver Certification from the U.S.
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