Daytona Beach, Florida#Notable inhabitants

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The area where Daytona Beach is located was once inhabited by the indigenous Timucuan Indians, who lived in fortified villages. The Timucuas were nearly exterminated by contact with Europeans through war, enslavement, and disease and became extinct as a racial entity through assimilation and attrition during the 18th century. The Seminole Indians, descendants of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama, frequented the area prior to the Second Seminole War.

During the era of British rule of Florida between 1763 and 1783, the King's Road passed through present-day Daytona Beach. The road extended from Saint Augustine, the capital of East Florida, to Andrew Turnbull's experimental colony in New Smyrna. In 1804, Samuel Williams received a land grant of {{convert|3000|acre|km2}} from the Spanish Crown, which had regained Florida from the British after the American Revolutionary War. This land grant encompassed the area that would become Daytona Beach. Williams built a slave labor-based plantation to grow cotton, rice, and sugar cane. His son Samuel Hill Williams abandoned the plantation during the Second Seminole War, when the Seminoles burned it to the ground.

The area now known as the Daytona Beach Historical District was once the Orange Grove Plantation, a citrus and sugarcane plantation granted to Samuel Williams in 1787. The plantation was situated on the west bank of the tidal channel known as the Halifax River, 12 miles north of Mosquito Inlet. Williams was a British loyalist from North Carolina who fled to the Bahamas with his family until the Spanish reopened Florida to non-Spanish immigration. After his death in 1810, the plantation was run by his family until it was burned down in 1835. In 1871, Mathias Day Jr. of Mansfield, Ohio, purchased the 3,200-acre tract of the former Orange Grove Plantation. He built a hotel around which the initial section of town arose. In 1872, due to financial troubles, Day lost title to his land; nonetheless, residents decided to name the city Daytona in his honor, and incorporated the town in 1876.{{Cite book |last1=Cardwell |first1=Harold D. |last2=Cardwell |first2=Priscilla D. |title=Historic Daytona Beach |year=2004 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=0-7385-1675-9}}{{Cite web |last=Zaffiro-Kean |first=Eileen |title=A fun look at Daytona Beach's founding years and early decades |url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/02/18/daytona-beach-has-an-interesting-history-that-goes-back-to-the-1870-s/8716340002/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=Daytona Beach News-Journal Online |language=en-US |archive-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201005811/https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/02/18/daytona-beach-has-an-interesting-history-that-goes-back-to-the-1870-s/8716340002/ |url-status=live }}

In 1886, the St. Johns & Halifax River Railway arrived in Daytona. The line was purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Flagler, who made it part of his Florida East Coast Railway. The separate towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged as "Daytona Beach" in 1926, at the urging of civic leader J. B. Kahn and others. By the 1920s, it was dubbed "the World's Most Famous Beach".

Daytona's wide beach of smooth, compacted sand attracted automobile and motorcycle races beginning in 1902, as pioneers in the industry tested their inventions.{{Cite journal |url=http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/28/ |title=Episode 27 Leather Cap and Goggles |date=October 1, 2014 |access-date=January 27, 2016 |journal=A History of Central Florida Podcast |last=Dickens |first=Bethany |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304155020/http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/28/ |url-status=live }} It hosted land speed record attempts beginning in 1904, when William K. Vanderbilt set an unofficial record of {{cvt|92.307|mph}}.Kettlewell, Mike. "Daytona", in Northey, Tom, ed. World of Automobiles (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 5, p.501. Land speed racers from Barney Oldfield to Henry Segrave to Malcolm Campbell would visit Daytona repeatedly and make the {{cvt|23|mi|km}} beach course famous.Kettlewell, pp.501–2; Northey, Tom, "Land-speed record: The Fastest Men on Earth", in Northey, Tom, ed. World of Automobiles, Volume 10, pp.1161–1165. Record attempts, including numerous fatal endeavors such as Frank Lockhart (Stutz Black Hawk, 1928) and Lee Bible (Triplex Special, 1929), would continue until Campbell's March 7, 1935 effort, which set the record at {{cvt|276.816|mph|km/h}} and marked the end of Daytona's land speed racing days.Northey, p.1165.

On March 8, 1936, the first stock car race was held on the Daytona Beach Road Course, located in the present-day Town of Ponce Inlet. In 1958, William France Sr. and NASCAR created the Daytona International Speedway to replace the beach course. Automobiles are still permitted on most areas of the beach, at a maximum speed of {{cvt|10|mi/h|km/h}}.

The city of Daytona Beach made national headlines in 2005, when it designated the several–mile radius around Main Street on the barrier island portion of the city as a blighted area and has targeted it for redevelopment by private developers. This follows the Supreme Court decision of the eminent domain case in Kelo v. City of New London, which upheld the right of municipalities to use eminent domain to take private property for redevelopment by private entities.{{Cite news |title=Daytona Business Owners Fight Eminent Domain |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4760258 |website=NPR.org |access-date=2015-11-19 |archive-date=January 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108174933/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4760258 |url-status=live }}

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of {{cvt|64.93|sqmi|0}}, of which {{cvt|6.25|sqmi|0}} (9.6%) are covered by water.

The city of Daytona Beach is split in two by the Halifax River lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway, and sits on the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Holly Hill and Ormond Beach and on the south by Daytona Beach Shores, South Daytona, and Port Orange.

Notable weather events that have caused damage or injury in Daytona Beach include Hurricane Donna in 1960, the 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak, and Hurricane Charley in 2004.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} In 1992, a {{convert|28|mi|km|adj=on}} long rogue wave with a {{convert|9|ft|m|adj=on}} high crest hit Daytona Beach, causing property damage and 75 reported injuries.{{Cite web |url=http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/whirl/vol.html |title=Volusia County |access-date=December 3, 2008 |archive-date=August 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817081155/http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/whirl/vol.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0477/76/1/pdf/i1520-0477-76-1-21.pdf |title=The Daytona Beach Wave of July 3–4, 1992: A Shallow Water Gravity Wave Forced by a Propagating Squall Line |date=January 1995 |website=Ams.allenpress.com}}

Daytona Beach has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), which is typical of the Gulf and South Atlantic states. As is typical of much of Florida, two seasons are seen in Daytona Beach - the warmer, wetter season (late May through October) and the cooler and drier season (November through April).

In summer, temperatures are relatively stable with an average of only 8 days annually with a maximum at or above {{cvt|95|°F|0}}; the last {{cvt|100|°F|0}} reading was seen on August 2, 1999. The Bermuda High pumps hot and unstable tropical air from the Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico, resulting in daily, but brief thundershowers. This results in the months of June through September accounting for most of the average annual rainfall of {{cvt|51.25|in|mm|abbr=on}}.

In winter, Daytona Beach has weather conditions typical of other cities on the Florida peninsula. On average, the coolest month is January, with a normal monthly mean temperature of {{cvt|58.8|°F|1}}. It is the only month where the average high temperature falls below {{cvt|70.0|°F|1}}. Occasional cold fronts can bring freezes, which from 1991 to 2020 were seen on an average of 3.0 nights annually; however, minima below {{cvt|25|°F|0}} are very rare, and were last seen on December 28, 2010. Like much of Florida, Daytona Beach often can be very dry in late winter and early spring, and brush fires and water restrictions can be an issue.

Official record temperatures range from {{cvt|15|°F|0}} on January 21, 1985, up to {{cvt|102|°F|0}} on July 15, 1981, and June 24, 1944; the record cold daily maximum is {{cvt|33|°F|0}} on Christmas Day 1983, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is {{cvt|82|°F|0}} on September 1 and 10–11, 2008, and August 25, 2020. Annual rainfall has ranged from {{cvt|31.36|in|mm|abbr=on}} in 2006 and 1956, up to {{cvt|79.29|in|mm|abbr=on}} in 1953. The most rainfall to have occurred in a calendar day was {{cvt|12.85|in|mm|abbr=on}} on October 10, 1924, which contributed to {{cvt|24.82|in|mm|abbr=on}} of rain that fell that month, the most of any calendar month.

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|Jan record high F= 92

|Feb record high F= 89

|Mar record high F= 92

|Apr record high F= 96

|May record high F=100

|Jun record high F=102

|Jul record high F=102

|Aug record high F=101

|Sep record high F= 99

|Oct record high F= 95

|Nov record high F= 90

|Dec record high F= 88

|Jan avg record high F = 82.0

|Feb avg record high F = 83.9

|Mar avg record high F = 87.3

|Apr avg record high F = 89.7

|May avg record high F = 93.8

|Jun avg record high F = 95.0

|Jul avg record high F = 95.4

|Aug avg record high F = 95.3

|Sep avg record high F = 92.7

|Oct avg record high F = 89.5

|Nov avg record high F = 85.2

|Dec avg record high F = 82.5

|year avg record high F= 96.9

| Jan high F = 69.0

| Feb high F = 71.7

| Mar high F = 75.5

| Apr high F = 80.2

| May high F = 85.0

| Jun high F = 88.6

| Jul high F = 90.2

| Aug high F = 89.8

| Sep high F = 87.3

| Oct high F = 82.2

| Nov high F = 76.1

| Dec high F = 71.5

|year high F = 80.6

|Jan mean F = 58.8

|Feb mean F = 61.4

|Mar mean F = 65.2

|Apr mean F = 70.2

|May mean F = 75.6

|Jun mean F = 80.2

|Jul mean F = 81.9

|Aug mean F = 81.9

|Sep mean F = 80.1

|Oct mean F = 74.4

|Nov mean F = 67.0

|Dec mean F = 61.8

|year mean F = 71.5

| Jan low F = 48.5

| Feb low F = 51.1

| Mar low F = 54.8

| Apr low F = 60.1

| May low F = 66.2

| Jun low F = 71.8

| Jul low F = 73.5

| Aug low F = 74.1

| Sep low F = 72.9

| Oct low F = 66.7

| Nov low F = 57.9

| Dec low F = 52.1

|year low F = 62.5

|Jan avg record low F = 31.4

|Feb avg record low F = 34.6

|Mar avg record low F = 38.9

|Apr avg record low F = 46.4

|May avg record low F = 55.7

|Jun avg record low F = 66.3

|Jul avg record low F = 70.0

|Aug avg record low F = 70.4

|Sep avg record low F = 66.7

|Oct avg record low F = 52.0

|Nov avg record low F = 42.2

|Dec avg record low F = 35.7

|year avg record low F= 29.7

|Jan record low F=15

|Feb record low F=24

|Mar record low F=26

|Apr record low F=32

|May record low F=40

|Jun record low F=52

|Jul record low F=60

|Aug record low F=63

|Sep record low F=52

|Oct record low F=39

|Nov record low F=25

|Dec record low F=19

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| Jan precipitation inch = 2.73

| Feb precipitation inch = 2.34

| Mar precipitation inch = 3.63

| Apr precipitation inch = 2.23

| May precipitation inch = 3.69

| Jun precipitation inch = 6.94

| Jul precipitation inch = 6.01

| Aug precipitation inch = 6.58

| Sep precipitation inch = 7.15

| Oct precipitation inch = 4.85

| Nov precipitation inch = 2.76

| Dec precipitation inch = 2.34

|year precipitation inch = 51.25

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| Jan precipitation days = 8.0

| Feb precipitation days = 6.7

| Mar precipitation days = 7.6

| Apr precipitation days = 6.3

| May precipitation days = 7.4

| Jun precipitation days = 14.7

| Jul precipitation days = 13.7

| Aug precipitation days = 14.8

| Sep precipitation days = 14.5

| Oct precipitation days = 10.8

| Nov precipitation days = 7.2

| Dec precipitation days = 7.6

| year precipitation days = 119.3

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{{US Census population

|1910= 331

|1920= 825

|1930= 16598

|1940= 22584

|1950= 30167

|1960= 37395

|1970= 45327

|1980= 54176

|1990= 61921

|2000= 64112

|2010= 61005

|2020= 72647

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As of the 2020 United States census, 72,647 people, 28,763 households, and 14,607 families resided in the city.{{Cite web |title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2020: Daytona Beach city, Florida |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Daytona+Beach+city;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2020.S1101 |website=United States Census Bureau |access-date=October 24, 2023 |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222023924/https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2020.S1101?q=Daytona+Beach+city;+Florida+ |url-status=live }}

As of the 2010 United States census, 61,005 people, 25,093 households, and 12,234 families lived in the city.{{Cite web |title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2010: Daytona Beach city, Florida |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Daytona+Beach+city;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2010.S1101 |website=United States Census Bureau |access-date=October 24, 2023 |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222023925/https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2010.S1101?q=Daytona+Beach+city;+Florida+ |url-status=live }}

As of 2000, 18.0% had children under 18 living with them, 30.1% were married couples living together, 14.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.6% were not families. Of all households, 39.4% were made up of individuals, and 14.4% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.77.

In 2000, 17.6% of the population was under 18, 16.6% was from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% was 65 or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $25,439, and for a family was $33,514. Males had a median income of $25,705 versus $20,261 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,530. 23.6% of the population and 16.9% of families were below the poverty line. Of the total population, 34.9% of those under 18 and 12.1% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

As of 2000, English spoken as a first language accounted for 90.37% of all residents, and 9.62% spoke other languages as their first language. Spanish speakers made up 4.01% of the population; French was the third-most spoken language, which made up 0.90%; German was at 0.86%; and Arabic was at 0.66% of the population.{{Cite web |url=https://apps.mla.org/map_data_results%26SRVY_YEAR%3D2000%26geo%3D%26state_id%3D12%26county_id%3D%26mode%3D%26lang_id%3D%26zip%3D%26place_id%3D16525%26cty_id%3D%26region_id%3D%26division_id%3D%26ll%3D%26a%3D%26ea%3D%26order%3Dr%26pc%3D1 |title=Data Center Results |website=Apps.mla.org |access-date=March 1, 2022 |archive-date=March 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301205604/https://apps.mla.org/map_data_results%26SRVY_YEAR%3D2000%26geo%3D%26state_id%3D12%26county_id%3D%26mode%3D%26lang_id%3D%26zip%3D%26place_id%3D16525%26cty_id%3D%26region_id%3D%26division_id%3D%26ll%3D%26a%3D%26ea%3D%26order%3Dr%26pc%3D1 |url-status=live }}

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Tourism is a major part of the Daytona Beach economy, with over 8 million visitors in 2004.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Other sources of revenue include manufacturing, and Daytona Beach has industrial sites within an enterprise zone and sites within a foreign trade zone adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport.

Companies and organizations that have their corporate headquarters or a major presence in the area include:

• Brown & Brown
• Halifax Health
• Halifax Media Group
• International Speedway Corporation
• Gambro-Renal Products
• Ladies Professional Golf Association
• NASCAR
• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

• Volusia Mall, the largest shopping mall in Daytona Beach
• Ocean Walk Shoppes, an open-air shopping center
• Tanger Outlets, a {{cvt|380000|ft2|m2}} retail center

According to the City's 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,https://flauditor.gov/pages/mun_efile%20rpts/2019%20daytona%20beach.pdf {{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} the top employers in the city are:

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The Museum of Arts and Sciences is the primary cultural facility for Daytona Beach and Volusia County. Other museums located in the city include the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Halifax Historical Museum. The Museum of Arts and Sciences is actually a collection of museums and galleries, and includes the Klancke Environmental Complex, the Cuban Museum, the Root Family Museum featuring one of the largest Coca-Cola collections in the world, the Dow American Gallery, and the Bouchelle Center for Decorative Arts, which together form what is probably one of the finest collections of furniture and decorative arts in the Southeast. It also includes the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art, which houses the largest collection of Florida art in the world. The exhibitions change often, and a children's science center opened in 2008. Since 1952, the nonprofit Daytona Beach Symphony Society has sponsored performances by U.S. and international orchestras, opera, and dance companies each season at the Peabody Auditorium.{{cite web |url=http://www.dbss.org/ |title=Homepage – Daytona Beach Symphony Society |work=Daytona Beach Symphony Society |access-date=August 25, 2014 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606093859/http://www.dbss.org/ |url-status=live }}

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The city attracts over 8 million tourists each year. Special events that draw visitors to Daytona Beach include:

• Speedweeks (Daytona 500 NASCAR race, Rolex 24 sports car race, and others)
• Coke Zero Sugar 400, NASCAR race held on the first Saturday of July (formerly called the Pepsi 400 and the Firecracker 400)
• Daytona Beach Bike Week Daytona 200 motorcycle races, bike shows, and biker reunion in March
• Spring break (date varies, usually the first and second week of March)

During motorcycle events (Bike Week and Biketoberfest), several hundred thousand bikers from all over the world visit the greater Daytona Beach area. The city is also often associated with spring break, though the efforts of the local government to discourage rowdiness, combined with the rise of other spring-break destinations, have affected Daytona's preeminence as a spring-break destination. It is the destination of Dayton 2 Daytona, an annual event that draws over 3,000 University of Dayton college students since 1977.

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• Daytona 500 Experience
• Daytona International Speedway
• Daytona Beach Boardwalk
• Daytona Lagoon Water Park
• Halifax Historical Museum
• Jackie Robinson Ballpark
• Main Street Pier
• Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center and Visual Arts Gallery
• Museum of Arts and Sciences
• News Journal Center
• Southeast Museum of Photography
• The Ocean Center

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Annual races at Daytona International Speedway include 24 Hours of Daytona and Daytona 500.

The Daytona Tortugas, a minor league baseball team of the Low-A Southeast, play at Jackie Robinson Ballpark. Established in 1993, the team has won six championships.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

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Daytona Beach has over {{convert|23|miles|km}} of public beaches, and more than ten waterfront parks.{{cite web |url=https://www.daytonabeach.com/things-to-do/the-beach/ |title=The Beach |access-date=23 August 2017 |author=Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau |date=2017 |quote=Our 23 miles of sandy, white beaches are open to pedestrians 24/7 with free access! Cars are permitted in designated areas of the beach from sunrise to sunset, tidal conditions permitting. |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823164151/https://www.daytonabeach.com/things-to-do/the-beach/ |url-status=live }} Cars can be driven on some of the beaches.{{cite web |url=https://www.daytonabeach.com/things-to-do/the-beach/beachfront-parks/ |title=Beachfront Parks in Daytona Beach |access-date=23 August 2017 |author=Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau |date=2017 |quote=Highlights include Lighthouse Point Park and Smyrna Dunes Park on opposite sides of Ponce Inlet offering a combined 125 acres of fun with some areas welcoming pets for a walk, run or a swim. Topping out at 40 acres in Ormond Beach is Michael Crotty Bicentennial Park with areas for favorite sports – football, baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis and volleyball. |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823162305/https://www.daytonabeach.com/things-to-do/the-beach/beachfront-parks/ |url-status=live }}

Notable golf courses include Daytona Beach Golf Course, established in 1922, and LPGA International.

Under Daytona Beach's commission-manager form of government, voters elect a city commission, which consists of seven members who serve four-year, staggered terms. Six are elected by district, the mayor is elected citywide.

The city commission establishes ordinances and policies for the city. It also reviews and approves the city budget annually. The commission appoints a city manager, who carries out the will of the commission and handles day-to-day business.

The United States Postal Service operates a post office at 500 Bill France Boulevard in Daytona Beach.

The Daytona Beach Armed Forces Reserve Center is home of the Florida Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Battery D.

Daytona Beach is part of Florida's 6th congressional district.{{cite web |title=Find Your Representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. |url=http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=32114&Submit=FIND+YOUR+REP+BY+ZIP |website=House.gov |access-date=2015-11-19 |archive-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427114225/http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep?ZIP=32114&Submit=FIND+YOUR+REP+BY+ZIP |url-status=live }} It is part of Florida's 25th and 26th State House of Representatives Districts and the 6th and 8th State Senate Districts.

Florida's 6th congressional district, which extends from the southern Jacksonville suburbs to New Smyrna Beach and includes St. Augustine and Daytona Beach.

Public primary and secondary education is handled by Volusia County Schools. Daytona Beach has two traditional public high schools, two middle schools, and six elementary schools. Some of the larger private schools include Father Lopez Catholic High School.

• Beachside Elementary
• Champion Elementary
• Palm Terrace Elementary
• R.J. Longstreet Elementary
• Turie T. Small Elementary
• Westside Elementary

• Campbell Middle School
• David C. Hinson Middle School

• Mainland High School
• Seabreeze High School

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• Bethune–Cookman University
• Daytona State College
• Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University
• University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach Campus

• The Airline Academy offers flight training for pilots and other airline professionals.
• Keiser College
• Phoenix East Aviation offers flight training for pilots.
• WyoTech (formerly AMI) offers motorcycle repair and marine repair training.{{cite web |url=http://www.wyotech.edu/campus/daytona |title=WyoTech Daytona |work=wyotech.edu |access-date=July 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530025033/http://www.wyotech.edu/campus/daytona |archive-date=May 30, 2013 |url-status=dead}}

• The Daytona Beach News-Journal – daily newspaper covering the Daytona Beach metropolitan area
• Hometown News – weekly newspaper covering the greater Daytona Beach area
• East Coast Current – community newspaper covering Volusia County
• Orlando Sentinel – newspaper and news site based in Orlando, with a bureau covering Daytona Beach and Volusia County
• The Avion Newspaper – student college publication of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.
• The Daytona Times – Black newspaper covering Daytona Beach
• HeadlineSurfer.com – Internet-only newspaper covering the greater Daytona Beach - Orlando area

AM

• WNDB, 1150 AM, Daytona Beach, news/Talk/Sports
• WROD, 1340 AM, Daytona Beach, classic rock
• WMFJ, 1450 AM, Daytona Beach, religious
• WDJZ, 1590 AM, Daytona Beach, adult contemporary/news/talk

FM

• WHOG-FM, 95.7 FM, Ormond Beach, classic rock
• WCFB, 94.5 FM, Daytona Beach, urban adult contemporary
• WJHM, 101.9 FM, Daytona Beach, classic hip hop
• WIKD-LP, 102.5 FM, Daytona Beach, campus radio ofEmbry–Riddle Aeronautical University
• W231CN, 94.1 FM, Daytona Beach, urban contemporary "HOT 94.1"{{cite web |url=http://hotdaytona.com/ |title=HOT 94.1 | Daytona's Station For Hip Hop & R&B | Daytona Beach, FL |website=Hotdaytona.com |date= |access-date=2022-03-01 |archive-date=December 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220050454/http://hotdaytona.com/ |url-status=live }}

• WESH, Channel 2, digital channel 11, NBC
• WDSC-TV, Channel 15, digital channel 24, educational independent
• Spectrum News 13, Spectrum Cable, cable channel 13

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Law enforcement in Daytona Beach is provided by the 241-member Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) headed by police chief Craig Capri. In a unique and controversial program to help fund the Police Explorer program, run by a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America, T-shirts with the words Scumbag Eradication Team: Not in Our Town are sold at the police headquarters.{{cite web |title=Scumbag T-Shirt Raises Money For Police Youth Program |url=http://www.wftv.com/news/16071001/detail.html |website=Wftv.com |access-date=2015-11-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102044455/http://www.wftv.com/news/16071001/detail.html |archive-date=November 2, 2008 |df=mdy-all}}

The T-shirts contain a caricature of retired Chief Chitwood standing next to a toilet bowl with the legs of multiple individuals sticking out. The T-shirt has been cited in at least one lawsuit against the DBPD alleging police brutality; the lawyer in the case in which the client sustained broken ribs and a fractured eye socket during an arrest for an open container of beer, claims the T-shirt shows the DBPD condones violence.{{cite web |title=FloriDUH {{!}} Sun Sentinel Blogs {{!}} Suit against top cop cites "Scumbag" T-shirt |url=http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/03/suit_against_a_sheriff_cites_s_1.html |website=Weblogs.sun-sentinel.com |date=August 17, 2009 |access-date=2015-11-19 |archive-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326141048/http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/specials/weirdflorida/blog/2010/03/suit_against_a_sheriff_cites_s_1.html |url-status=live }}

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office, headed by Mike Chitwood, is a county-wide law enforcement agency with 446 sworn positions, 438 civilian employees, 300 volunteers, and an annual operating budget of $73 million that has jurisdiction in unincorporated areas of Volusia County and provides additional law enforcement support to Daytona Beach during such events as the Daytona 500 and aids in joint investigations of certain crimes.{{cite web |title=Volusia county sheriff's office |url=http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/ |website=Volusia.org |access-date=2015-11-19 |archive-date=July 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715211232/http://www.volusia.org/Sheriff/ |url-status=live }}

The Volusia County Beach Patrol provides law enforcement and EMT services along Volusia County beaches, including the beaches in the city of Daytona Beach.{{cite web |title=Beach Safety |url=http://www.volusia.org/beach/ |website=Volusia.org |access-date=2015-11-19 |archive-date=June 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626001739/http://www.volusia.org/beach/ |url-status=live }}

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Healthcare in Daytona Beach is dominated by Halifax Health (formerly known as Halifax Hospital). The Halifax Hospital Taxing District was established in 1927 by an act of the Florida Legislature as a public hospital district.{{cite web |url=http://www.hfch.org/taxing-districts.html |title=Taxing Districts |work=hfch.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726145931/http://www.hfch.org/taxing-districts.html |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |df=mdy}} Dozens of individual practitioners and professional associations are in the Daytona Beach area.

Basic utilities in Daytona Beach (water and sewer) are provided by the city government.

• Florida Power & Light is Daytona Beach's local electric power provider.
• TECO/People's Gas is Daytona Beach's natural gas provider. [http://www.peoplesgas.com/]
• Spectrum and AT&T networks are Daytona Beach's local cable providers.
• AT&T (formerly BellSouth) is Daytona Beach's local phone provider.

The city has a successful recycling program with separate pickups for garbage, yard waste, and recycling. Collection is provided by several private companies under contract to Volusia County.

File:Aerial view of runway 7R, Daytona Beach International Airport, 2007-11-03.jpg

Passenger airline services are located at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), which is centrally located within the city adjacent to Daytona International Speedway. The site was first used as an airport with terminals being constructed in 1952 and 1958. The present facility was constructed in 1992 at the cost of $46 million, and includes both a domestic terminal and an International terminal. Despite the new facilities, DAB has found difficulty in attracting and retaining carriers; Continental Airlines, AirTran Airways, and United Airlines discontinued flights to Daytona in 2007 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://flydaytonafirst.com/history.htm |title=DBIA History |publisher=Volusia County, Florida |access-date=2009-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326102202/http://flydaytonafirst.com/history.htm |archive-date=March 26, 2009 |df=mdy}} LTU and American Airlines also serviced Daytona Beach during the 1980s and 1990s, both of which ended all flights in 1994 and 1997, respectively.

Current passenger airlines serving DAB include Delta Air Lines (with nonstop service to Atlanta) and American Airlines (with nonstop service to Charlotte). Both carriers offer connecting service from those cities to destinations worldwide. International flights from DAB fly to destinations in the Bahamas through air taxi and charter services Airgate Aviation and IslandPass; non-stop flights are available from DAB to Marsh Harbour, Treasure Cay, and North Eleuthera. Sunwing Airlines also operates seasonal flights from Toronto Pearson International Airport.{{cite web |url=http://www.flyislandpass.com/ |title=IslandPass |publisher=IslandPass, LLC |access-date=2009-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607061056/http://www.flyislandpass.com/ |archive-date=June 7, 2009 |df=mdy}} DAB is also heavily used for general aviation, largely due to Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, whose campus is located at the airport.

Larger airports nearby are Orlando International Airport and Jacksonville International Airport, each of which is about 90 minutes away.

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• Daytona Beach is served by Greyhound Bus Lines, which has a terminal located at 138 South Ridgewood Avenue (US 1). The Greyhound routes from Daytona Beach connect with hubs in Jacksonville and Orlando.
• Votran is the local bus service provided by Volusia County.

Daytona Beach is easily accessible by I-95 that runs north and south and I-4 connecting Daytona Beach with Orlando and Tampa. US 1 (Ridgewood Avenue) also passes north–south through Daytona Beach. US 92 (International Speedway Boulevard) runs east–west through Daytona Beach. SR A1A is a scenic north–south route along the beach.

The Volusia County Parking Garage is located at 701 Earl Street at North Atlantic Avenue (SR A1A). The garage is strategically located, next to the Ocean Center, Daytona Lagoon, and across the street from the Hilton Hotel and Ocean Walk Shoppes. Over 1000 parking spaces are available inside the garage, which also houses an intermodal transfer station for VoTran.

Four bridges cross over the Halifax River (and Intracoastal Waterway) at Daytona Beach. They include (starting from furthest downstream) the Veterans Memorial Bridge (which carries CR 4050 traffic), the Broadway Bridge (which carries US 92 traffic), the Main Street Bridge (which carries CR 4040 traffic), and the Seabreeze Bridge (which carries SR 430 traffic). All four bridges charge no toll to traffic.{{cite web |title=FDOT Florida Bridge Information |work=Florida Dept. of Transportation |url=http://www.dot.state.fl.us/statemaintenanceoffice/CBR/Florida%20Bridge%20Information%201st%20Qtr%202011.pdf |access-date=2011-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060128/http://www.dot.state.fl.us/statemaintenanceoffice/CBR/Florida%20Bridge%20Information%201st%20Qtr%202011.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04}} In June, 2016, the Veterans Memorial Bridge was closed as part of a three-year project to demolish the drawbridge and replace it with a high span bridge.{{Cite web |url=http://www.volusia.org/veteransmemorialbridge/ |title=Veterans Memorial Bridge and Proposed Future Memorial Plaza |date=September 22, 2016 |website=Volusia.org |access-date=March 1, 2022 |archive-date=March 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301205426/https://www.volusia.org/veteransmemorialbridge/ |url-status=live }}

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Passenger railroad service to Daytona Beach was established no later than 1889 by the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway, predecessor of the Florida East Coast Railroad . Long-distance trains such as the City of Miami and the South Wind (both from Chicago), East Coast Champion (from New York City) and the Havana Special (New York City) made stops at Daytona Beach.{{cite journal |title=Florida East Coast Railway |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=90 |issue=7 |date=December 1957}}{{cite journal |title=Florida East Coast Railway |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=91 |issue=3 |date=January 1962}}Bramson, Seth H. Speedway to Sunshine: the story of the Florida East Coast Railway, Boston Mills Press, 2010, p. 227. {{ISBN|9781554077533}}. Long distance routes were diverted to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad routes on the Florida interior south of the Jacksonville Union Station, following the beginning of a labor dispute on the FEC in 1963.Atlantic Coast Line Railroad timetable, December 14, 1962, Table 15Atlantic Coast Line Railroad timetable, December 13, 1963, Table 14 Passenger trains continued calling at Daytona Beach until July 31, 1968, when the FEC terminated passenger operations system-wide.Bramson, Seth H. Speedway to Sunshine: the story of the Florida East Coast Railway, Boston Mills Press, 2010, pp. 153. {{ISBN|9781554077533}}. The FEC currently operates freight trains through Daytona Beach.

Daytona Beach is served by Amtrak by way of an Amtrak Thruway connection between the beachside and Amtrak's DeLand station, {{convert|28|mi|km|abbr=on}} to the west. There, the service connects northbound with train 92, the Silver Star, and train 98, the Silver Meteor. Southbound connections from Daytona Beach are limited to Silver Meteor southbound train 97. The DeLand – Daytona Beach service is Amtrak's only Florida Amtrak Thruway route provided by a taxicab, rather than a bus.

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• Perry Baker, rugby player for the U.S. national team
• Fulgencio Batista, 19th President of Cuba
• Pete Carr, musician
• Vince Carter, basketball player, eight-time NBA All-Star
• Ed Charles, Major League Baseball player
• Dimitri Diatchenko, actor{{Cite web |last=Linton |first=Caroline |date=April 25, 2020 |title=Actor Dimitri Diatchenko, featured on "Sons of Anarchy," has died at age 52 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dimitri-diatchenko-died-character-actor-dead-age-52-cause-of-death-unclear-2020-04-25/ |access-date=October 28, 2024 |website=CBS News}}
• John Flemm, businessman{{Cite news |last=Gardner |first=Sheldon |date=July 17, 2024 |title=Laura Roth will face 2 political unknowns for Volusia clerk |url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2024/07/17/laura-roth-will-face-2-political-unknowns-for-volusia-clerk/74030513007/ |newspaper=The Daytona Beach News-Journal |access-date=March 10, 2025}}
• Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR
• Roland G. Fryer Jr., economist, in 2007 at age 30, he became the youngest African American to be given tenure at Harvard University.
• Michael Greenbaum, rabbi and Vice Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
• Kenneth C. Griffin, hedge-fund manager, entrepreneur, investor
• Lee H. Hamilton, U.S. congressman representing Indiana
• Danielle Harris, actress
• Carrenza Howard, baseball pitcher
• Zora Neale Hurston, writer, anthropologist
• Alex Kinsey, singer
• E. J. Kuale, professional football player
• Henry Lehmann (1929–2000), General Manager of General Electric's military systems operations, and philanthropist
• Gary Russell Libby, art historian, curator, and director of the Museum of Arts and Sciences
• Ryan Lochte, swimmer, winner of 12 Olympic medals including six gold
• Martin Mayhew, pro football player and executive
• Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil-rights activist
• Walter M. Miller Jr., author of A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Jane Morgan, singer{{cite web |title=Jane Morgan |work=www.waybackattack.com |url=https://www.waybackattack.com/morganjane.html |access-date=June 23, 2023 |archive-date=June 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623234135/https://www.waybackattack.com/morganjane.html |url-status=live }}
• Matthew Tyler Musto, musician
• Kevin Nash, professional WWE wrestler
• No Kum-sok, North Korean defector
• Ransom Eli Olds, automobile pioneer
• Pavlina Osta, radio host
• Josef Papp, engineer
• Kitty Pryde, rapper
• Glen "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR driver
• Bob Ross, artist and television host
• Galen Seaman, lawyer, Wisconsin state assemblyman, and mayor of Daytona Beach
• David Sholtz, 26th governor of Florida
• Mike Skinner, NASCAR driver
• Lindsey Snell, journalist{{Cite news |last=Lane |first=Mark |date=September 3, 2016 |title=Lane: Father waits for news about area journalist in Turkish prison |url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2016/09/03/lane-father-waits-for-news-about-area-journalist-in-turkish-prison/25523871007/ |access-date=January 6, 2025 |work=The Daytona Beach News-Journal}}
• Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter
• Howard Thurman, author and theologian
• Denzel Washington, actor
• Eric Weems, professional football player
• T. K. Wetherell, president of Florida State University
• Leonard Williams, NFL defensive lineman for Seattle Seahawks
• Jacob Winchester, award-winning composer, writer, voice actor, and director
• Robert Wright, musical-theater writer
• Aileen Wuornos, serial killer executed in 2002
• Smokey Yunick, mechanic and motor-racing innovator

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Novels set in Daytona Beach include:

• Day Number 142 (1974) by Edgar A. Anderson
• Last Cruise of the Nightwatch (1956) by Howard Broomfield
• Kick of the Wheel (1957) by Stewart Sterling

Several movies have been based on Daytona Beach, usually with a racing theme. The most recent example was the 1990 hit Days of Thunder, parts of which were filmed in Daytona Beach and nearby DeLand. Chris Rea wrote the song "Daytona", which was in his 1989 album The Road to Hell. Suzi Quatro's song "Daytona Demon" is often believed to refer to the city.Ausländer, Phillip; Performing Glam Rock: Gender And Theatricality in Popular Music; p. 210. {{ISBN|0472068687}} Also, about half of the video for the song "Steal My Sunshine" by Len was filmed at Daytona Beach.

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Volusia County, Florida

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• Kettlewell, Mike. "Daytona", in Northey, Tom, ed. World of Automobiles, Volume 10, pp. 501–503. London: Orbis, 1974.
• Northey, Tom, "Land-speed record: The Fastest Men on Earth", in Northey, Tom, ed. World of Automobiles, Volume 10, pp. 1161–1166. London: Orbis, 1974.

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• [http://www.codb.us/ City of Daytona Beach]
• [http://www.daytonachamber.com/ Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce]
• [http://www.daytonabeach.com/ Daytona Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau]
• [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/ A History of Central Florida Podcast] – [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/28/ "Leather Cap and Goggles"], [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/29/ "Rum Runner"]

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