Fiesta Key

Fiesta Key is the northeasternmost island in the middle Florida Keys, connected via causeway to U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway) at mile marker 70, between Long Key and Craig Key.^[1]

Fiesta Key

Aerial view of Fiesta Key, October 1987
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Geography
Location	Gulf of Mexico
Coordinates	24.84086°N 80.789788°W / 24.84086; -80.789788
Administration
United States
State	Florida
County	Monroe

History

Fiesta Key's earliest name on record was Jew-fish Kay. In an 1873 survey, Charles Smith, who came to the Keys to conduct government surveys of the islands, identified it as Jewfish Key.^[2]

Louie Turner homesteaded the island on January 7, 1908, becoming the first recorded owner.

For a period in the 1950s and 1960s, the island was a property of The Greyhound Corporation. During that period it was named Tropical Key, then Greyhound Key.^[3]

Tourism and Camping

Kampgrounds of America (KOA) bought the island from Greyhound in 1966 and renamed it as Fiesta Key. KOA no longer owns the island.