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Dade City is the county seat of Pasco County, a role it has held since Pasco County was created in 1887, with voters confirming it as the permanent seat in an 1889 special election.

Dade City was named for Major Francis L. Dade, who was killed in the Dade Battle that opened the Second Seminole War.

Dade City began as the nearby settlement of Fort Dade in the 1870s, but the whole town moved east to reach the railroad in the 1880s and took the name Dade City in December 1884.

Dade City was first incorporated in the mid-1880s and incorporated again in 1889, growing up around its railroad depot and courthouse square.

The historic Pasco County Courthouse, a red-brick Classical Revival landmark designed by Edward Columbus Hosford and opened in 1909, anchors downtown Dade City and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Dade City's 1912 Atlantic Coast Line railroad depot is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Dade City is famous for kumquats - its Annual Kumquat Festival, first held in 1998, fills downtown on the last Saturday of every January to celebrate the small tart citrus fruit grown around eastern Pasco County.

Dade City had 7,275 residents in the 2020 census, and the Census Bureau estimated its population had grown to about 10,173 by July 2025.

Dade City has about 2,887 households, and roughly 64% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Dade City is home to the Pioneer Florida Museum & Village, an open-air museum preserving pioneer-era Florida buildings and artifacts, and to the safari-style Giraffe Ranch.