Map of Hollywood city, Florida

Hollywood is a city in southern Broward County, Florida, United States, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. As of 2020 census, Hollywood had a population of 153,061, and an estimated population of 153,131 in 2021. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the 12th-largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6,138,333 people in the 2020 census, and an estimated 6,091,747 in 2021. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 °F (20 and 28 °C).

Hollywood city overview:
Name:	Hollywood city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Florida
County:	Broward County
Founded:	February 18, 1921
Incorporated:	November 28, 1925
Elevation:	9 ft (3 m)
Total Area:	30.78 sq mi (79.71 km²)
Land Area:	27.25 sq mi (70.58 km²)
Water Area:	3.52 sq mi (9.13 km²) 11.23%
Total Population:	153,067
Population Density:	5,616.93/sq mi (2,168.72/km²)
ZIP code:	33004, 33009, 33019-33021, 33023, 33024, 33312, 33314, 33316
Area code:	954, 754
FIPS code:	1232000
GNISfeature ID:	0284176
Website:	www.HollywoodFL.org

Online Interactive Map

Hollywood online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

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History

In 1920, Joseph Young arrived in South Florida to create his own “Dream City in Florida”. His vision included the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean stretching westward with man-made lakes, infrastructure, roads, and the Intracoastal Waterway. He wanted to include large parks, schools, churches, and golf courses; these were all industries and activities that were very important to Young’s life. After Young spent millions of dollars on the construction of the city, he was elected as the first mayor in 1925. This new town quickly became home to northerners known as “snowbirds”, who fled the north during the winter and then escaped the south during the summer to avoid the harsh weather. By 1960, Hollywood had more than 2,400 hotel units and 12,170 single-family homes. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town “Hollywood by the Sea” to distinguish it from his other real-estate venture, “Hollywood in the Hills”, in New York.

The Florida guide, published by the Federal Writers’ Project, describes the early development of Hollywood, an early example of a planned community that proliferated in Florida during the real-estate boom of the 1920s:

Prospective purchasers of land were enticed by free hotel accommodation and entertainment, and “were driven about the city-to-be on trails blazed through palmetto thickets; so desolate and forlorn were some stretches that many women became hysterical, it is said, and a few fainted. Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel (Hollywood Beach Hotel, now Hollywood Beach Resort), country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following Young’s death in 1934, the city encountered other destructive hurricanes, and the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes.

Hurricane Irma hit Florida in 2017, wreaking widespread damage. Due to the spontaneity of the hurricane, nearly 700 elderly nursing-home residents died. In an investigation following the hurricane, some of the deaths were found to be not actually a result of the hurricane, but the poor conditions to which they were exposed in the aftermath. Four nursing-home staff charged with negligence and counts of manslaughter. Following the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irma in 2017, an initiative called Rebuild Florida was created by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to provide aid to citizens affected by the natural disaster. The initial focus of Rebuild Florida was its Housing Repair Program, which offered assistance in rebuilding families’ homes that were impacted by Hurricane Irma. The program gave priority to low-income vulnerable residents, such as the disabled, the elderly, and those families with children under five. The success of this program has various results across the city, with hundreds of citizens claiming they were left without help.

Timeline

1921 – Hollywood by the Sea platted on land of Joseph Wesley Young
1923
- Hollywood Hotel opens. Later renamed the Park View Hotel when the Hollywood Beach Hotel opens.
1925
- Hollywood incorporated
- Hollywood Police Department established
- Hollywood Boulevard Bridge built (approximate date)
- Joseph Wesley Young becomes mayor; C.H. Windham becomes city manager
- Joseph Wesley Young House built
1926
- Hollywood Beach Hotel in business
- September 18: 1926 Miami hurricane demolished city
1928 – Port Everglades opened near Hollywood
1930
- Hollywood Hills Inn built
- Population: 2,689.
1932 – Riverside Military Academy Hollywood campus established
1935 – Fiesta Tropicale began
1937 – Florida Theatre built
1947 – Hurricanes occur
1948 – Broward County International Airport opened
1950 – Population: 14,351
1952 – Joseph Watson became city manager (until c. 1970)
1953 – Hollywood Memorial Hospital opened
1957
- Seminole Tribe of Florida gained official recognition by the federal government, with tribal headquarters located in Hollywood.
- McArthur High School opened
1958 – Diplomat Hotel in business
1959 – Seminole Tribe’s Okalee Indian Village in business.
1960 – Population: 35,237
1962 – Arrow Drive-In cinema in business
1964 – Home Federal Tower hi-rise built.
1967 – Hollywood West Elks Lodge founded
1970 – Population: 106,873
1971
- Pageant of the Unconquered Seminoles held in Hollywood
- Topeekeegee Yugnee Park opened
1972 – Broward County Historical Commission established
1974 – Broward County Library System established.
1975 – Art and Culture Center of Hollywood opened
1981
- July 27: Murder of Adam Walsh
- “U.S. Supreme Court affirms Tribe’s right to high-stakes bingo at Hollywood in Seminole Tribe of Florida vs. Butterworth“
1982 – West Lake Park opened
1983 – Seminole Tribune newspaper begins publication.
1996
- Kolb Nature Center opened in West Lake Park
- City website online (approximate date)
1997 – New Times Broward-Palm Beach newspaper began publication
2004 – Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in business
2010 – Population: 140,768
2013 – Frederica Wilson became U.S. representative for Florida’s 24th congressional district
2016 – Josh Levy became mayor
2018 – The first hotel in almost 50 years, Circ By Sonder, opens in Downtown Hollywood.
2019 – Hard Rock Live guitar shaped hotel opened, with pool and manmade lake

Hollywood Road Map

Hollywood city Satellite Map

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.8 square miles (80 km), of which 3.46 square miles (9 km) are covered by water (11.23%).

Hollywood is in southeastern Broward County, and includes about 5 to 6 miles (8.0 to 9.7 km) of Atlantic Ocean beach, interrupted briefly by a portion deeded to Dania Beach. It is bounded by these municipalities:

Neighborhoods

These neighborhoods and communities are officially recognized by the City of Hollywood:

441 Corridor
Alandco
Arapahoe Farms
Beverly Hills
Beverly Park
Boulevard Heights
Camino Sheridan
Carriage/Carriage Hills
Central Business District
Condo presidents
Downtown Hollywood
Driftwood/Driftwood Acres
East Lake
Emerald Hills
Emerald Oaks
Emerald Point
Estates of Fort Lauderdale
Highland Gardens
Hillcrest
Hollywood Beach
Hollywood Gardens
Hollywood Hills
Hollywood Lakes
Hollywood North Beach
Hollywood South Central Beach
L’Etoile at Emerald Point
Lake Eden
Lakes of Emerald Hills
Lawnacres
Liberia
Mapleridge
Martin Luther King Jr. Community
North Central
Oak Point
Oakridge
Oakwood Hills
Park East
Park Side
Playland/Playland Village
Playland Estates
Quadomain
Royal Poinciana
Sheridan Oaks
Stirling Commercial
The Homes at East Lake
The Townhouses of Emerald Hills
The Wood of Emerald Hills
T.Y. (Topeekeegee Yugnee) Park
Washington Park
West Hollywood

Climate

Hollywood has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af), with long, hot, humid, and rainy summers and short, warm, and dry winters.