Daytona Beach is a town in Volusia County, Florida, United States. It lies about 51 miles (82.1 km) northeast of Orlando, 86 miles (138.4 km) southeast of Jacksonville, and 242 miles (389.5 km) northwest of Miami. In the US Census 2010, it has a population of 61,005. This is the main town of Deltona-Daytona-Ormond Beach, FL's metropolitan area of ​​stats, which is home to 590,289 people in 2010. Daytona Beach is also a major city in the Fun Coast of Florida region.
The city is historically known for its sandy sandy beaches allowing motorists to drive on the beach in forbidden areas. The dense sand makes Daytona Beach the center of motor sport, and the long Daytona Beach Road Course has held the race for over 50 years. It was replaced in 1959 by the Daytona International Speedway. The city is also the headquarters for NASCAR.
Daytona Beach hosted a large group of out-of-towners who went to town for various events, notably Speedweeks in early February when over 200,000 NASCAR fans came to attend the Daytona 500 season opening. Other events included NASCAR Coke Zero 400 racing in July, Bike Week in early March, Biketoberfest in late October, and the Daytona 24-hour endurance race in January.
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The area where Daytona Beach is located was once inhabited by indigenous Timucuan Indians living in fortified villages. The Timucuas were almost annihilated by contact with Europeans through war, slavery and disease and became extinct as a racial entity through assimilation and attrition during the 18th century. Seminole Indians, descendants of Indian Creek from Georgia and Alabama, often visited the area before the Second Seminole War.
During the era of British rule in Florida between 1763 and 1783, King's Road passed through Daytona Beach now. The road extended from Saint Augustine, the capital of East Florida, to the experimental colony of Andrew Turnbull in New Smyrna. In 1804 Samuel Williams received a 3,000-acre (12 km) grant of land from the Kingdom of Spain, which had regained Florida from England after the American Revolution. This land grant covers the area that will be Daytona Beach. Williams built a labor-based plantation to grow cotton, rice and sugar cane. His son Samuel Hill Williams will leave the plantation during the Second Seminole War, when the Seminoles burn it to the ground.
The area now known as Daytona Beach History District was formerly the Grove Grove Plantation, a citrus and sugar cane plantation awarded to Samuel Williams in 1787. The plantation is located on the western edge of the tidal channel known as the Halifax River, 12 miles north of the Inlet Mosquito. Williams is a British loyalist from North Carolina who fled to the Bahamas with his family until Spain reopened Florida to non-Spanish immigration. After his death in 1810, the plantation was run by his family until it burned in 1835. In 1871, Mathias Day, Jr. of Mansfield, Ohio, purchased 3,200 acre tracts from the former Orange Grove Plantation. He built a hotel where the early part of the city appeared. In 1872, due to financial problems, Hari lost his land rights; Nonetheless, the residents decided to name the city of Daytona in his honor, and incorporated the city in 1876.
In 1886, St. Johns & amp; Halifax River Railway arrives in Daytona. The line will be purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Flagler, making it part of his Florida East Coast Railway. Separate cities Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged as "Daytona Beach" in 1926, at the urging of the J.B. Kahn and others. In the 1920s, it was nicknamed "The Most Famous Beach in the World".
The vast Daytona Beach with fine and dense sand attracts cars and motorcycles that began in 1902, when industry pioneers tested their discoveries. It hosted a ground speed record attempt beginning in 1904, when William K. Vanderbilt set an unofficial record of 92.307 mph (148,554 km/h). Drivers from Barney Oldfield to Henry Seagrave to Malcolm Campbell will visit Daytona repeatedly and make the famous 23 million km beach course famous. Record attempts, including fatal attempts such as Frank Lockhart (Stutz Black Hawk, 1926) and Lee Bible (Triplex Special, 1929), will continue until Campbell's March 7, 1935 effort, which regulates records at 276,816 mph ( 445,492 km/h) and marks the end of Daytona's ground-speed racing days.
On March 8, 1936, the first car race was held at Daytona Beach Road Course, located in the city of Ponce Inlet today. In 1958, William France Sr. and NASCAR created the Daytona International Speedway to replace the beach course. Cars are still permitted in most coastal areas, with a maximum speed of 10 mph (16 km/h).
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Geography
Daytona Beach is located at 29 Â ° 12? N 81 Â ° 2? W (29.2073, -81.0379). According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​64.93 sq., Mi (168Ã, km 2 ). where 58.68Ã, sqÃ, mi (152Ã, km 2 ) is ground and 6.25Ã, sqÃ, mi (16Ã, km 2 ) is water. Water is 9.6% of the total area.
The city of Daytona Beach is split in two by the Halifax River lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway, and located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the North by Holly Hill and Ormond Beach and in the south by Daytona Beach Shores, South Daytona and Port Orange.
Climate
Daytona Beach has a humid subtropical climate (climatic classification KÃÆ'¶ppen Cfa ), which is characteristic of Gulf and South Atlantic countries. Like most of Florida, there are two seasons in Daytona Beach; warmer, wetter season (late May to October) and cooler and drier seasons (November to April).
In summer, temperatures are relatively stable and averaged only 9.2 days each year with a maximum at or above 95 ° F (35 ° C); the last reading of 100 ° C (38 ° C) was seen on August 2, 1999. Bermuda High pumps the hot, unstable tropical air of the Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in a daily, but brief, breeze. This result in June to September represents the majority of the average annual rainfall of 49.6 in (1,260 mm).
In winter, Daytona Beach has weather conditions typical of other cities on the Florida peninsula. On average, the coolest month is January, with a normal monthly average temperature of 57.9 ° F (14.4 ° C). Occasional cold fronts can bring frozen, which from 1981 to 2010 is seen at an average of 4.7 nights each year; However, a minimum below 25 ° F (-4 ° C) is very rare, and last seen on December 28, 2010. Like most of Florida, Daytona Beach can often be very dry in late winter and early spring, and brush fires and water restrictions can be a problem. There are no snow records on the ground in Daytona Beach since 1906; However, snow floods have been observed twice since 1880 - on January 1, 1977 and in January 2010.
The official temperature record ranged from 15 ° F (-9 ° C) on January 21, 1985, to 102 ° F (39 ° C) on July 15, 1981 and June 24, 1944; The record of the maximum cold daily was 33 ° F (1 ° C) at Christmas 1985, while, on the contrary, the warm daily minimum note was 82 ° F (28 ° C) on September 1 and 10-11 , 2008. The annual rainfall ranged from 31.36 in (797 mm) in 2006 and 1956, to 79.29 in (2,014 mm) in 1953. The greatest rainfall occurred on the calendar day was 12.85 in (326 mm ) in October 10, 1924, which contributed to the 24,82 in (630 mm) rain falling that month, mostly from each calendar month.
Storm and tornado
Usually tropical cyclones pass offshore once they reach the northern part of the Atlantic coast of Florida. Thus, the risk of typhoons for Daytona Beach is significantly lower than that of southern Florida such as Miami and Key West. The 2004 hurricane season is the most active in the Daytona Beach area in the last 50 years. However, since 1950 there was only one direct attack by a tropical storm into the Daytona Beach area, Hurricane Donna in 1960.
Although Daytona Beach has significantly lower tornado risks than areas like Great Plains and the Midwest, there are some deadly and destructive tornadoes in the last 100 years in the Daytona Beach area. Recently, on February 22, 1998, a tornado killed 3 people, injured 70 people, and caused damage to $ 31 million.
Rogue wave
On July 3, 1992, a long 28-mile (45 km) long wave struck the coasts of Volusia County. The wave range is from Ormond Beach in the north, to New Smyrna Beach in the south. The peak is 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and centered on Daytona Beach. The sailboat crashed into the car and many people suffered cuts and bruises from glass and debris. Two people need hospitalization and 200 damaged vehicles. Seventy-five injuries were reported. The prevailing theory is that submarine landslides cause evil waves, although others theorize that it is the result of a storm line.
Law and government
Local government
Under a commission-manager form of Daytona Beach, voters choose a City commission of seven members serving four years, a staggered term. Six are selected by the district, the Mayor is elected throughout the city.
The City Commission sets out the procedures and policies for the city. It also reviews and approves the city budget every year. The Commission appoints the City Manager, who runs the Commission's will and handles day-to-day business.
Law enforcement
Law enforcement in Daytona Beach is provided by the 241-person Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) led by police chief Craig Capri. In a unique and controversial program to help fund the Police Explorer program, run by a subsidiary of Boy Scouts of America, a T-shirt with the words The Scumbag Eradication Team : Not in Our City sold at police headquarters.
T-shirts contain a caricature of Chitwood Retired Chief who stood beside the toilet bowl with the legs of several people sticking out. The T-shirt has cited at least one lawsuit against a DBPD that alleges police brutality, a lawyer in cases where clients suffer broken ribs and cavity eyes while capturing for open containers of beer, claiming T-shirts show DBPD justify violence.
The Department of the Volusia County Sheriff, headed by Mike Chitwood is a law enforcement agency in the region with 446 sworn positions, 438 civil servants, 300 volunteers and an annual operating budget of $ 73 million who has jurisdiction in isolated areas of Volusia County and provides additional law enforcement support to Daytona Beach during events such as the Daytona 500 and assistance in a joint investigation of certain crimes.
The Volusia County Beach patrol provides law enforcement and EMT services along the beaches of Volusia including the beaches of Daytona Beach.
Eminent domain case
The city of Daytona Beach made national headlines when it set a few mile radius around Main Street in the city's barrier section of the city as a damaged area and has targeted to be re-developed by private developers. It follows the Supreme Court's decision of the leading domain case at Kelo v. City of New London , which upholds the municipal right of the right to use a reputable domain to retrieve private property to be re-developed by a private entity.
Representations of Federal, state and county
The United States Postal Service operates a post office at 500 Bill France Boulevard in Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach is part of the 6th congressional district in Florida. This is part of State and State 25 and 26 District Districts in Florida and State Senate Districts 6 and 8.
The 6th congressional district in Florida, which runs from the southern suburbs of Jacksonville to New Smyrna Beach and includes St Augustine and Daytona Beach, is currently represented by Republican Ron DeSantis.
Demographics
In 2010, there were 33,920 households in which 19.5% were vacant. In 2000, 18.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.1% were married couples, 14.5% had married women without husband's presence, and 51.6% were non-family. 39.4% of all households are individuals and 14.4% have a self-sufficient 65 or older. The average household size is 2.06 and the average family size is 2.77.
In 2000, the urban population spread by 17.6% under the age of 18, 16.6% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% aged 65 years or older. The average age is 37 years. For every 100 females, there are 99.7 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 98.5 men.
In 2000, the average income for households in the city was $ 25,439, and the average income for families was $ 33,514. Men have an average income of $ 25,705 compared to $ 20,261 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 17,530. 23.6% of the population and 16.9% of families are below the poverty line. Of the total population, 34.9% of those under the age of 18 and 12.1% of those aged 65 and older live below the poverty line.
Language
In 2000, English spoken as the first language accounted for 90.37% of all residents, while 9.62% spoke other languages ​​as their native language. The most significant are Spanish speakers of 4.01% of the population, while French appears as the third most spoken language, reaching 0.90%, and Germany is fourth, at 0.86%, and , Arabs with 0.66% of the population.
Culture
The Museum of Art and Science is a major cultural facility for Daytona Beach and Volusia County. Other museums located in the city include the Southeastern Photography Museum and the Halifax Historical Museum. The Museum of Arts and Sciences is actually a collection of museums and galleries and includes the Klancke Environmental Complex, the Cuban Museum, the Root Family Museum featuring one of the largest collections of Coca-Cola in the world, the Dow American Gallery and the Bouchelle Center for Decorative Art which together form what may be one of the finest collections of furniture and decorative art in the Southeast. There is also a changing exhibition and a children's science center opened in 2008. Since 1952, the Daytona Coast Incognito Symphony Institute has sponsored performances by international orchestras and orchestras, opera companies and dances each season at the Peabody Auditorium.
Beach and park
Daytona Beach has over 23 miles (37 km) of white sandy beaches open to pedestrians without time constraints. Cars can be driven on several beaches during the daytime. There are more than ten waterfront parks in Daytona Beach. Thong bikinis are banned in all areas of Daytona Beach, with penalties of up to $ 500 and 60 days in jail.
Sports
Daytona Beach is home to NASCAR headquarters, IMSA, International Speedway Corporation, in Florida.
Motorports
Daytona International Speedway hosts Daytona's 24-hour annual Rolex 24 At Daytona and Daytona 500 races, among other events.
Baseball
In addition to motor sports, Daytona is also home to Daytona Tortugas, a small league baseball team from Florida Country League playing at Jackie Robinson Ballpark; founded in 1993 and currently has 6 championships.
Golf
There are a number of golf courses in Daytona Beach.
- Daytona Beach Golf Course: Two courses, North and South Courses designed in 1922.
- LPGA International: This golf club offers two 18 hole programs, Hills and Jones (originally Legend and Champions).
Custom events
The city attracts more than 8,000,000 tourists each year. Special events that attract visitors to Daytona Beach include:
- Speedweeks (Daytona 500 NASCAR race, Rolex 24 sports car racing, and more)
- Coke Zero 400, NASCAR race held on the first Saturday of July (formerly called Pepsi 400 and Firecrack 400) Daytona Beach Bike Week Daytona 200 motorcycle race, bike show and biker reunion in March
- Spring break (dates vary, usually first and second week of March)
During motorcycle events (Bike Week and Biketoberfest), several hundred thousand bikers from around the world visit the greater Daytona Beach area. The city is also often associated with spring, although the efforts of local authorities to prevent busyness, combined with the advent of other spring break destinations, have affected Daytona's advantage as a spring break destination. This is Dayton 2 Daytona's goal, an annual event attracting over 3,000 Dayton University students since 1977.
Media
Newspapers
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daily papers covering the Daytona Raya Coast Area.
- Kampung Halaman News - A weekly newspaper covering the Daytona Raya Coast Area.
- East Coast Current - Community Newspaper covering Volusia County. www.ECCurrent.com
- Orlando Sentinel - Orlando-based news and news sites with bureau covering Daytona Beach and Volusia County.
- The Avion Newspaper - Publication of Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University students in Daytona Beach.
- The Daytona Times - a black newspaper covering Daytona Beach
- HeadlineSurfer.com - A dedicated internet newspaper that covers the Daytona Beach-Downtown Orlando Area.
Radio
AM
- WNDB, 1150, Daytona Beach, Berita/Talk/Olahraga
- BAIK, 1340, Daytona Beach, Oldies
- WMFJ, 1450, Daytona Beach, Agama
- WPUL, 1590 AM, Daytona Beach, Adult Contemporary/Newstalk
FM
- WCFB, 94.5 FM, Daytona Beach, Urban Adult Contemporary
- WQMP/101.9 MHz: Modern stone
- WIKD-LP, 102.5 FM, Daytona Beach, Campus Radio Aeronautics University Embry-Riddle "The WIKD (Evil) 102.5"
Television
- WESH, Channel 2, digital channel 11, NBC
- WDSC-TV, analog channel 15, digital channel 33, PBS
- Central Florida News 13, cable channel Bright House Networks 13
Economy
The main part of the economy of the Daytona Beach region is involved in the tourism industry. More than 8 million visitors came to the Daytona Beach area in 2004.
Regional economics includes industries other than tourism, such as manufacturing. Daytona Beach has an industrial location within the corporate zone and sites within the foreign trade zone adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport. Interstate 4 and Interstate 95 sites are available with access to road, air, rail and water transportation.
Companies and organizations that have a corporate head office or a major presence in the area:
- Chocolate & amp; Chocolate
- Halifax Health
- Halifax Media Group
- International Speedway Corporation
- Gambro-Renal Products
- Professional Women's Golf Association
- NASCAR
Shopping
- Volusia Mall, 1700 West International Speedway Blvd. The largest shopping center in Daytona Beach. Connected by Sears, J. C. Penney, Macy's, and Dillard's.
- Ocean Walk Shoppes, 250 North Atlantic Ave. Open-air shopping center, located in the heart of the beach area.
- Tanger Outlet, located in the southeastern quadrant of Interstate 95 and LPGA Blvd. The 380,000-square-foot retail center (35,000 feet 2 ) was completed in November 2016.
Education
Primary and secondary education
Primary and secondary education is handled by Volusia County Schools. Daytona Beach has two public high schools, two secondary schools and six elementary schools. Some of the larger private schools include Catholic Catholic School Father Lopez.
Primary school
- Ortona Elementary
- Basic Champion
- Palm Terrace Elementary
- R.J. Longstreet Policy
- Turie T. Small Basic
- Westside Elementary
Sekolah menengah
- David C. Hinson Middle
- Campbell Middle
High School
- Seabreeze High
- Height of the Land
- Catholic Catholic School of Father Lopez
Colleges and universities
- Bethune-Cookman University
- Daytona State College
- Embry-Riddle Aviation University
- University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach Campus
Vocational school
- Airline Academy - Offers flight training for pilots and other aviation professionals.
- Keizer College
- Phoenix East Aviation - Offers flight training for pilots.
- WyoTech (formerly AMI) motorcycle repair, and sea improvement training.
Infrastructure
The health system
Health care in Daytona Beach is dominated by Halifax Health (formerly known as Halifax Hospital). The Halifax Hospital Tax Hospital was established in 1927 by the Florida Legislature Act as a district of public hospitals. There are dozens of Individual practitioners and Professional Associations (PAs) in the Daytona Beach area.
Utilities
The basic utilities at Daytona Beach (water and sewer) are provided by the City Government.
- Florida Power & amp; Light is Daytona Beach's local power provider.
- TECO/People's Gas is the provider of Daytona Beach natural gas. [1]
- Spectrum and AT & T Network are local cable providers of Daytona Beach.
- AT & amp; T Inc. (formerly BellSouth) is a local Daytona Beach phone provider.
The city has a successful recycling program with separate pickups for waste, yard waste and recycling. The collection is provided by several private companies under contract to Volusia County, Florida.
Transportation
Airport
Passenger service is located at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), located in downtown near Daytona International Speedway. The site was first used as an airport with terminals built in 1952 and 1958. The facility was built in 1992 at a cost of $ 46 million, and includes domestic terminals and International terminals. Despite the new facility, DAB has found it difficult to attract and retain operators; Continental Airlines, AirTran Airways, and United Airlines suspended flights to Daytona in 2007 and 2008. LTU & amp; American Airlines also served Daytona Beach during the 1980s and 1990s, both ending all flights in 1994 & amp; 1997.
Passenger airlines serving DAB include Delta Air Lines (with nonstop services to Atlanta), American Airlines (with non stop service to Charlotte), and JetBlue Airways (with non-stop service to New York-JFK). All three carriers offer liaison services from these cities to destinations around the world. International flights from DAB fly to destinations in the Bahamas via Airgate Aviation and IslandPass air taxi and charter services; Non-stop flights are available from DAB to Marsh Harbor, Treasure Cay, and North Eleuthera. DAB is also widely used for general aviation, mostly due to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, whose campus is located at the airport.
Larger airports nearby are Orlando International Airport and Jacksonville International Airport, both about one and a half hours away.
Automobiles
Daytona Beach is easily accessible by I-95 running North and South and I-4 connecting Daytona Beach with Orlando and Tampa. 1 US (Ridgewood Avenue) also passes Daytona Beach. A1A is a beautiful north/south route along the coast.
The Volusia Parking Garage is located at 701 Earl Street on North Atlantic Avenue (A1A). The garage is strategically located, next to Ocean Center, Daytona Lagoon, and across the street from the Hilton Hotel and Ocean Walk Shoppes. More than a thousand parking spaces are available in the garage, which is also the place of intermodal transfer stations for VoTran.
Bridge
There are four bridges over the Halifax River (and Intracoastal Waterway) in Daytona Beach. They include (from the furthest downstream) Veterans Memorial Bridge (which carries the CR 4050 traffic), Broadway Bridge (which carries traffic 92 US), Main Street Bridge (which carries CR 4040 traffic), and the Seabreeze Bridge cross 430 SR). The four bridges do not charge tolls for traffic. In June 2016, the Veterans' Memorial Bridge closed as part of a three-year project to destroy suspension bridges and replace them with high span bridges.
Rel
The passenger train service to Daytona Beach was established no more than 1889 by Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway, the forerunner of the East Coast Railroad (FEC) Florida. Passenger trains continued to call in Daytona Beach until 1968, when FEC terminated passenger operating system operations.
Daytona Beach is served by Amtrak via Thruway Motorcoach connection between the waterfront and Amtrak's DeLand Station, 28 miles (45 km) to the west. There, the service connects north with 92 trains, Silver Star , and train 98, Silver Meteor . The Southbound Connection of Daytona Beach is limited to Silver Meteor 's Southbound 97 wagon. The DeLand - Daytona Beach service is the only Florida Thruway Motorcoach route from Amtrak provided by taxis, rather than buses.
Destination
In popular culture
Novels installed on Daytona Beach include:
- Day Number 142 (1974) by Edgar A. Anderson
- Last Evening of the Nightwatch (1956) by Howard Broomfield
- Wheelchairs (1957) by Stewart Sterling
There are a number of films based in Daytona Beach, usually with a racing theme. The most recent example is the 1990 hit Days of Thunder , parts of it were filmed in Daytona Beach and near DeLand. Chris Rea wrote the song "Daytona" on his 1989 album The Road to Hell. Suzi Quatro's song "Daytona Demon" is often believed to refer to the city. Also, about half of the videos for the song "Steal My Sunshine" by Len were filmed in Daytona Beach.
Daytona Beach is also the goal of a group of teenagers who were hit in the movie Final Destination 2 .
Daytona Beach is also one of the settings in the 2008 film Marley & amp; I am .
Famous people
See also
- List of National Historic Sites Places in Volusia County, Florida
References
Note
Source
- Kettlewell, Mike. "Daytona", in Northey, Tom, ed. World of Automobiles , Volume 10, pp.Ã, 501-503. London: Orbis, 1974.
- Northey, Tom, "Land Speed ​​Records: The Fastest People on Earth", in Northey, Tom, ed. World of Automobiles , Volume 10, pp. 1161-1166. London: Orbis, 1974.
External links
- Daytona Beach City
- Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce
- Daytona Beach Convention & amp; Visitor Bureau
- History of Central Florida Podcasts - "Caps and Leather Glasses", "Rum Runner"
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