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Cape Coral from the International Space Station, 2016. Cape Coral is a city in Lee County, Florida, United States, on the Gulf of Mexico.Founded in 1957, the city's population had grown to 194,016 as of the 2020 census, a 26% increase from 154,309 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-most populous city in Florida.
Description: This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Lee County, Florida, highlighting Cape Coral in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
Pine Island Center is the location of the island's two large grocery stores, along with an elementary school, library, museum, swimming pool, and a large park. Sixteen-mile-long Stringfellow Road ( County Road 767 ) is Pine Island's main road and connects St. James City on the south end of the island with Bokeelia and Pineland on the north side ...
The Cape Coral Yacht Club Community Park, which boasts a beach, The Boathouse Tiki Bar & Grill Restaurant, a historic ballroom building, and other park amenities, is the city's premier gemstone.
SR 884 is Lee County's main east–west arterial highway. Its western terminus is in the incorporated limits of the City of Cape Coral and the eastern terminus is in Lehigh Acres. Within Cape Coral, the highway is named "Veterans' Memorial Parkway", and is a multilane, controlled-access highway. Within Fort Myers, it is named "Colonial Boulevard".
The company is noted for its role in the development of Cape Coral, and pioneering the sales method of installment land purchases. In the late 1960s, GALC sold 173,000 mi (278,000 km) of swampland, dubbed Golden Gate Estates, to about 40,000 buyers. Many buyers bought plots that were submerged underwater.
In the late 1950s, MassHighway proposed a cloverleaf to replace the Bourne Rotary and expedite traffic headed down-Cape across Camp Edwards to Route 6 at Sandwich. Bourne selectmen liked the proposal.
Cayo Costa State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Florida, on Cayo Costa (formerly known as La Costa Island or Padilla Rancho), an island directly south of Boca Grande (Gasparilla Island) and just north of North Captiva Island, approximately 12 miles (19 km) west of Cape Coral. The park is accessible only by charter boat (with or ...