Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Lehigh Acres, FL

Lehigh Acres is not an incorporated city but a vast unincorporated census-designated place in eastern Lee County, governed locally in large part through the Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District, a special district created by the Florida Legislature.

Lehigh Acres was created in the mid-1950s by Chicago businessman Lee Ratner, who bought 18,000 acres of ranch land in 1954 as a tax shelter and called it the Lucky Lee Ranch; development under the Lehigh Corporation began that same year.

Lehigh Acres was pre-platted on an enormous scale - its street grid covers about 61,000 acres divided into roughly 152,000 quarter-acre and half-acre lots along more than 1,400 miles of roads, and as late as 1997 nearly 90% of those lots still sat vacant.

Part of Lehigh Acres covers the grounds of the former Buckingham Army Airfield, a major Army Air Forces training base that closed at the end of World War II.

Lehigh Acres had a population of 114,287 in the 2020 Census, up from 86,784 in 2010, making it one of the largest unincorporated communities in Florida and part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metropolitan area.

The Lehigh Acres census-designated place spans about 94 square miles, and State Road 82 runs along its southern border, about 15 miles east of downtown Fort Myers.