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Living in Fort Myers Area

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Ft. Myers, is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 62,298 and in 2019 was estimated at 87,103. Together with the larger and more residential Cape Coral, it anchors a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) which comprises Lee County and has a population of 770,577 in 2019.

Fort Myers is a gateway to the Southwest Florida region and a major tourist destination within Florida. The winter estates of Thomas Edison (“Seminole Lodge”) and Henry Ford (“The Mangoes”) are major attractions. The city takes it name from a local former fort that was built during the Seminole Wars. The fort in turn took its name from Colonel Abraham Myers in 1850; Myers served in the United States Army, mostly the Quartermaster Department, in various posts from 1833-1861 and was the quartermaster general of the Confederate States Army from 1861-1864.

See: Lee County School District for other public schools in the area.

Secondary schools in the city include:

Dunbar High School
Fort Myers Senior High School, an International Baccalaureate school
Bishop Verot High School, a private, Roman Catholic high school in Fort Myers, operated by the Diocese of Venice, Florida.

The City of Palms Classic is an annual high school basketball tournament held in Fort Myers since 1973. Several of its alumni have made it to the NBA.The area is also home to the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels minor league baseball team, a Class-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.

Fort Myers is home to the Florida Stingrays, who played their home games at Rutenberg Park.

The Fort Myers metropolitan area is served by two nearby airports. Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) is located southeast of the city. The airport, which sits on 13,555 acres of land, is the 45th busiest airport (by annual passengers). In 2018 the airport served 9,373,178 passengers. Page Field is a small general aviation airport whose primary traffic consist of smaller aircraft.

Ground transport
Busses run by LeeTran provide local service in Fort Myers.

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