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Wellington was incorporated on December 31, 1995, and with a population of 61,637 at the 2020 Census it is the most populous village in Florida and the fifth-largest municipality in Palm Beach County.

Wellington began in the 1950s as the Flying Cow Ranch, where Charles Oliver Wellington assembled about 18,000 acres of Everglades-edge swampland and named the ranch after his initials, C.O.W.; Flying Cow Road still exists and was once his private landing strip.

Wellington was developed from the late 1970s by Gould Florida Inc., which built the International Polo Club Palm Beach and the Aero Club, a private residential airpark.

Polo arrived in Wellington in 1977, and in 2002 the village set aside an Equestrian Preserve of thousands of acres with public bridle trails woven through its neighborhoods.

Wellington is nicknamed the "Winter Equestrian Capital of the World" and hosts more than 40 weeks of equestrian competition each year.

Wellington's Winter Equestrian Festival, held each January through April at Wellington International, is the largest and longest-running horse show in the world, running about 13 weeks across 111-plus acres and 18 arenas with riders from all 50 states and more than 30 countries.

Wellington also hosts the Global Dressage Festival, which began in 2011, and is home to the USPA National Polo Center, the headquarters venue of American polo.

Wellington has about 21,163 households, and roughly 75.8 percent of its homes are owner-occupied.

The Wellington Environmental Preserve covers 365 acres of wetlands, trails, and a learning center on the village's western edge.