Haines City, Florida Haines City, Florida City Official seal of Haines City, Florida City Commissioners Don Mason City Manager Jonathan E.
City Clerk Linda Bourgeois Haines City is a town/city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 13,174 at the 2000 census and 20,535 at the 2010 census. Haines City is the third most crowded city in Polk County.
It is part of the Lakeland Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area, which, in turn, is considered part of the Tampa Bay Area for some purposes, although the town/city is much closer to Orlando than Tampa. 2 City officials Haines City was platted in 1885, shortly after the South Florida Railroad reached the area. The town/city was first known as Clay Cut, but there was no barns station.
It is said that the inhabitants persuaded the barns business to build a station by agreeing to rename their town/city Haines City, to honor a senior barns official, Colonel Henry Haines. The City of Haines City was originally incorporated under the General Statutes of Florida as the Town of Haines City on February 23, 1914.
The first state legislative act affecting the City was enacted on May 20, 1919, and, by Chapter 8272, it was reincorporated under a Mayor-Council form of government.
The City operates under a commission-manager form of government and provides the following services as authorized by its charter: Public safety (Police and Fire), Streets and Highways, Culture-Recreation, Public Improvements, Sanitation, Planning and Zoning and General and Administrative Services. The early pioneer planted citrus groves, and citrus burgeoning and refining became the chief industry of the city.
From 1974 to 1986, Circus World, a infamous park created by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was open just north of Haines City.
In recent years Haines City has seen explosive growth, largely because of its easy access to Orlando and Walt Disney World Resort.
New residentiary areas have been advanced on the edges of the city.
On high ground in the north of the city, Southern Dunes, a golf and nation club with both vacation homes and residentiary homes, was advanced between 1995 and 2005.
In 2004, Haines City experienced three hurricanes.
Hurricane Charley passed through the town/city in August.
The town/city has since recovered.
The former seal of Haines City.
Four years after Charley, Haines City got hit again this time by a weaker storm titled Tropical Storm Fay.
A new park on Lake Eva, replacing a previous park on the site, was instead of in 2009. The town/city has also assembled a new park, called "8-Acre Park", and auditorium in the Oakland area, on the northern side of the city.
Haines City was the site of a 350-acre (1.4 km2) brush fire on March 25, 2009.
Haines City is responding to the arrival of Legoland Florida in Winter Haven.
Legoland's expected tourist influx is dominant Haines City to search for ways to advertise and bring more citizens to the historic downtown area, specifically motorists coming down U.S.
City officials Haines City operates on a council-manager system, with five City Commissioners propel at large who appoint a City Manager and other officials in the town/city administration.
Haines City is positioned at 28 6 42 N 81 37 43 W (28.111751, -81.628650). Haines City is positioned inside the Central Florida Highlands region of the Atlantic coastal plain, part of the Lake Wales Ridge, a sandy terrain consisting of a low ridge of gently rolling hills rising from the coastal flatlands. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.8 square miles (51 km2), of which 8.3 square miles (21 km2) is territory and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), 7.27% of the total, is water.
Haines City is positioned in the humid subtropical zone as designated by (Koppen climate classification: Cfa).
Climate data for Haines City, Florida As of the census of 2000, there were 13,174 citizens , 4,749 homeholds, and 3,409 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 54.87% White, 31.86% African American, 0.52% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 10.42% from other competitions, and 1.90% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $27,636, and the median income for a family was $30,678.
The per capita income for the town/city was $13,818.
In 2010, Haines City had a populace of 20,535.
The primary highways in the Haines City region are: US 17/92 - US 17/92 enters the town/city from Lake Alfred in the west, bisecting the downtown as Hinson Avenue until turning north on 17th Street and exiting towards Davenport.
State Road 17 - Called 10th Street in Haines City, this old Scenic Highway leads through hills in easterly Polk County and providing a scenic route southward to Lake Hamilton, Dundee, and Lake Wales, and on to Sebring.
State Road 544 - This road, also a scenic drive, joins SR 17 and US 27 in southern Haines City, and continues westward from there as Lucerne Park Road on its way to Winter Haven.
Haines City is served by an hourly bus service to Lake Alfred and Winter Haven by Winter Haven Area Transit and, from December 16, 2012, by hourly Lynx bus services to Poinciana and Four Corners. Railroads have always been a part of Haines City's history, and freight and passenger trains still run through the city, although the barns station has been closed for many years.
Haines City has many schools including Landmark Baptist College, Landmark Christian School, Daniel Jenkins Academy of Technology Middle School, Haines City High School, Ridge Community High School,Shelley S.
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