Daytona Beach is a coastal resort city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. Located on the East Coast of the United States, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, and is a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida.
Daytona Beach in 1924
Daytona Beach in 1932
Daytona Beach in 1932
Daytona Beach
Volusia County is located in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Florida between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2020 census, the county was home to 553,543 people, an increase of 11.9% from the 2010 census. It was founded on December 29, 1854, from part of Orange County, and was named for the community of Volusia, located in northwestern Volusia County. Its first county seat was Enterprise. Since 1887, its county seat has been DeLand.
Volusia County courthouse in DeLand, built in 2001
Volusia on the right bank of the St. Johns River (circa 1835)
Timucua owl totem found near Hontoon Island in the St. Johns River, Volusia County
Avenue of Moss-Covered Oaks, Near Ormond, Florida -- an 1893 duotone print