Stuart, Martin County, Florida, USA

Stuart is a community in Martin County, Florida, set within Florida’s low coastal plain, subtropical waterways and fast-growing metropolitan regions. Stuart is the Martin County seat at the meeting of the Saint Lucie River’s forks, with a strong boating and fishing identity. Indigenous history, rail expansion, agriculture and twentieth-century migration shaped the peninsula, and later roads broadened the community’s ties to the region. Tourism, health care, trade, construction, agriculture and services anchor the economy. Local traditions and access to the outdoors add another dimension to life in Stuart.