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Tamarac is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 71,897. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people in 2015.

Tamarac city overview:
Name:	Tamarac city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Florida
County:	Broward County
Incorporated:	August 15, 1963
Elevation:	9 ft (3 m)
Land Area:	11.60 sq mi (30.03 km²)
Water Area:	0.48 sq mi (1.25 km²)
Population Density:	6,200.69/sq mi (2,394.08/km²)
ZIP code:	33309, 33319, 33320, 33321, 33351, 33359
Area code:	954, 754
FIPS code:	1270675
GNISfeature ID:	0300337
Website:	www.tamarac.org

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History

In the early 1960s a young developer named Ken Behring came from the Midwest and bought land where he could, creating an active adult community of two-bedroom maintenance-free homes. He called his new city Tamarac, named after the nearby Tamarac Country Club in Oakland Park.

In 1963, Behring built and Jesse Pilch sold the city’s first development east of State Road 7, Tamarac Lakes Section One and Section Two. Next came two neighborhoods of homes built on a former orange grove called Tamarac Lakes North and Tamarac Lakes Boulevard. Four of Behring’s last developments were Tamarac Lakes South, then the Mainlands of Tamarac Lakes just west of State Road 7, and finally the Woodlands community.

The city’s early leaders, hoping to preserve Tamarac as a bedroom community, allowed Fort Lauderdale to annex commercial pockets, forever losing land that might have bolstered the city’s coffers. In the late 1970s, the city de-annexed a long line of commercial buildings from State Road 7 all the way to Northwest 31 Avenue, but it went along with Behring’s vision of Tamarac as a bedroom community. The boundaries were wherever Behring decided to build homes. The city’s current eastern boundaries narrow to a sliver from Northwest 31 to 37 Avenues, then widen to the south. The city’s easternmost boundary extends below Commercial Boulevard to Northwest 16 Avenue. City officials had once considered revising their east city limit lines to ensure efficient delivery of government services.

Behring also named a subdivision he built in the Pinellas Park area, the “Mainlands of Tamarac By-the-Gulf”.

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Geography

Tamarac is located at 26°12′13″N 80°14′47″W / 26.20361°N 80.24639°W / 26.20361; -80.24639 (26.203581, –80.246376). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.1 square miles (31.3 km), of which 11.6 square miles (30.1 km) is land and 0.46 square miles (1.2 km) is water (3.92%).