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Poinciana (English: / p ɔɪ n s i ˈ æ n ə /) is a settlement and census-designated place (CDP) in Osceola and Polk counties in the U.S. state of Florida. It is part of the Greater Orlando area. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 69,309.
The city was planned by the Tropical Florida Development Company [3] (later Poinciana Development Company [4]) of Miami in 1925, [5] [1] advertising the community as a future "Miami of the Gulf Coast". The city was to have been built on the north side of the mouth of the river, on 3 land sections totaling over 100 square miles.
Osceola County was created in 1887. On July 21, 1821, Florida was divided into two counties, named Escambia County to the west and St. John's County to the east. In 1824, the southern part of St. John's County became Mosquito County, with Enterprise as the county seat.
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The agency has over 700 employees and serves a population of 390,341. Osceola County deputies patrol 1,506 square miles (3,900 km 2) which include Kissimmee, St. Cloud, Celebration, and Poinciana as well as several other unincorporated communities.
At a town hall with about 500 people, Liberty City residents shared what they want to see if Miami-Dade finally develops Poinciana Park. ‘Many broken promises.’ Community needs in the ...
Poinciana may refer to: Delonix regia or royal poinciana, a tree; Caesalpinia pulcherrima, a shrub; Poinciana, a synonym of the legume genus Caesalpinia; Poinciana, Florida, a place "Poinciana" (song), a 1936 standard song composed by Nat Simon and Buddy Bernier; Poinciana (Ahmad Jamal album), featuring the above song
Poinciana station around 1975. In the mid-1970s, the site was planned as the southern terminus for Amtrak's inaugural auto ferry service called AutoTrak connecting Florida to Indianapolis Union Station, in competition with the Auto-Train Corporation's Auto-Train service. Amtrak initially built a complex with a 1,600 square foot modular building ...