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Davie began in 1909 as a farming settlement called Zona, carved out of drained Everglades swampland, and was renamed in 1916 for developer Robert Parsell Davie, who had bought some 27,000 acres and helped drain the land.

Davie was incorporated as a town on November 16, 1925, and despite now having more residents than most Florida cities, it remains a 'town', making it Florida's most populous municipality styled as a town.

The U.S. Census Bureau counted 105,691 residents in Davie in the 2020 Census, living in about 38,677 households that average 2.74 people each, among the larger household sizes in Broward County.

Davie is famous across South Florida for its western, equestrian character, with horse trails, ranches and rodeos in the middle of suburban Broward County.

Davie's first rodeo was held in 1940 by Claude Tindall, remembered as the 'father of Florida rodeo', and rodeo still anchors the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds in the historic downtown.

The Old Davie School, designed in 1917 by noted architect August Geiger and opened in 1918, was the first permanent school in the Everglades and is the oldest existing school building in Broward County, now the Old Davie School Historical Museum.

Davie hosts the South Florida Educational Center, anchored by the main campus of Nova Southeastern University, one of Florida's largest private universities.

Florida Atlantic University opened its Davie campus in 1990 on land shared with Broward College, and the University of Florida also operates a Davie campus, giving the town an unusual concentration of university campuses.

The Long Key Natural Area and Nature Center preserves a rare island hammock and wetlands landscape in the middle of suburban Davie.