Coconut Creek, Florida, United States

🇺🇸 Coconut Creek is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is situated 37 miles (60 km) north of Miami. It is part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city seceded from Pompano Beach in the 1960s. It is nicknamed "Butterfly Capital of the World" because it is home to Butterfly World, the world's largest butterfly aviary, with over 80 species and 20,000 individual butterflies.

Characteristics Coconut Creek has an area of 12 square miles (31 km²), with approximately 50,000 residents and 1,400 businesses. Housing is primarily single-family homes, condominiums, and townhouses within professionally landscaped communities.

The city took its name from the coconut trees, that were planted in the area by early developers. Robert E. Bateman, one of the developers, named Coconut Creek after combining the names of Miami-Dade County's village of Indian Creek and the Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove.

Coconut Creek is part of the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–Pompano Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The city is a well-planned community with a unique environmental consciousness touting an abundance of trees, waterways, landscaped roads, parks, and butterfly gardens throughout the neighborhoods. This is due to the city's progressive planning approach to creating a unique life-style for residents and businesses. Coconut Creek is the first in the state of Florida and eleventh in the country to be certified as a "Community Wildlife Habitat".

Playful City USA, a national program advocating for local policies that increase play opportunities for children and is a key platform in combating the play deficit, named Coconut Creek a 2012 Playful City USA. KaBOOM! selected Coconut Creek for its outstanding dedication to play.

Coconut Creek is adjacent to "Mount Trashmore", officially known as the Monarch Hill Renewable Energy Park, which has long emitted foul odours into the air of the city. In September 2010, after threatening to sue over the landfill's odours, Coconut Creek reached an agreement with Waste Management, Inc., the operator of the landfill, that prohibits food and other decaying materials from going into Mount Trashmore after October 2, 2013.

Geography Coconut Creek is located in northern Broward County. It is bounded by unincorporated Palm Beach County on the north, by the cities of Parkland, Coral Springs and Margate on its west, by Deerfield Beach on its east, and by Pompano Beach on its east and southeast. According to the United States Census Bureau, Coconut Creek has a total area of 12.0 square miles (31.1 km²), of which 11.9 square miles (30.7 km²) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km²) is water (1.21%).

Education: University • Broward College (North Campus) • Technological University of America

Points of interest • American Top Team headquarters • Butterfly World in Tradewinds Park • Coconut Creek Community Center • Coconut Creek Recreation Complex • Goldcoast Ballroom • Sabal Pines Park • Seminole Casino Coconut Creek • The Promenade at Coconut Creek.