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Homestead was incorporated as a town in 1913 with just 121 people and 28 registered voters, and it is the second-oldest city in Miami-Dade County after Miami itself.

Homestead got its name from the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West extension: the construction camp at the end of the line sat in an area opened for homesteading, so supplies shipped to the workers were consigned to 'Homestead Country', later shortened to Homestead.

Homestead sits between two national parks - Biscayne National Park to the east and Everglades National Park to the west - and remains a major agricultural area.

Homestead took a direct hit from Category 5 Hurricane Andrew on August 24, 1992, when 165-mile-per-hour winds destroyed nearly every building in the city and about a third of its roughly 30,000 residents left.

The Homestead-Miami Speedway, a 1.5-mile oval that opened in November 1995 as part of the city's recovery from Hurricane Andrew, hosted NASCAR's championship-deciding season finale for years.

The city's air base began as Homestead Army Air Field in 1942, was re-established as Homestead Air Force Base in 1953, and today operates as Homestead Air Reserve Base.

Homestead had 80,737 residents at the 2020 Census, up from 60,512 in 2010, more than recovering the population it lost after Hurricane Andrew.

Homestead has about 25,600 households, but only about 48% of its homes are owner-occupied, one of the lower homeownership rates among Miami-Dade County cities.