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Eustis is a city in Lake County that was settled around 1875 under the names Highlands and then Pendryville, before taking the name of General Abraham Eustis; it incorporated in 1883.

The 2020 census counted 23,189 residents in Eustis, up from 18,558 in 2010, and the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate reached 25,483.

Census QuickFacts counts about 10,074 households in Eustis (2020-2024), averaging 2.34 people per household, with about 71 percent of homes owner-occupied.

Eustis hosts GeorgeFest, its celebration of George Washington's birthday held every February since 1902 — now recognized as the longest continuously running George Washington birthday celebration in the United States.

The city sits on the eastern shore of Lake Eustis, a roughly 7,800-acre lake in the Harris Chain of Lakes long prized for bass fishing and boating.

In the steamboat era Eustis grew as a port on the lake chain and a citrus-growing center, drawing winter visitors to grand hotels such as the Ocklawaha.

Ferran Park, the city's first public park, has anchored the downtown lakefront since the land for it was purchased in 1913.

One of Florida's early telegraph lines linked Eustis with Leesburg and Sanford in 1878.

The city calls itself 'America's Hometown.'