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Fiesta Key
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Aerial view of Fiesta Key, October 1987
Fiesta Key is located in Florida
Fiesta Key
Fiesta Key
Location in Florida
Fiesta Key is located in Caribbean
Fiesta Key
Fiesta Key
Location in Caribbean
Geography
Location Gulf of Mexico
Coordinates 24°50′27″N 80°47′23″W / 24.84086°N 80.789788°W / 24.84086; -80.789788
Administration
State Florida
County Monroe

Fiesta Key is the northeasternmost island in the middle Florida Keys, connected via causeway to U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) at mile marker 70, between Long Key and Craig Key.

History

Fiesta Key's earliest name on record was Jew-fish Kay. In an 1873 survey, Charles Smith, who came to the Keys to conduct government surveys of the islands, identified it as Jewfish Key.

Louie Turner homesteaded the island on January 7, 1908, becoming the first recorded owner.

For a period in the 1950s and 1960s, the island was a property of The Greyhound Corporation. During that period it was named Tropical Key, then Greyhound Key.

Tourism and Camping

Kampgrounds of America (KOA) bought the island from Greyhound in 1966 and renamed it as Fiesta Key. KOA no longer owns the island.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Cayo Fiesta para niños

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