Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, USA

Fort Myers is a community in Lee County, Florida, set within Florida’s low coastal plain, subtropical waterways and fast-growing metropolitan regions. The Lee County seat stands on the Caloosahatchee River and is known for its palm-lined downtown and winter-estate history. The area’s development reflects how Indigenous history, rail expansion, agriculture and twentieth-century migration shaped the peninsula before modern highways linked it to nearby population centers. Tourism, health care, trade, construction, agriculture and services anchor the economy. The surrounding landscape remains part of Fort Myers’s everyday identity.