Kalamazoo is an unincorporated community located in southwest Volusia County, Florida. As of 2011, Kalamazoo is private property.

Kalamazoo
Unincorporated community
Kalamazoo - The geographic center is on private property near the tree in center frame
Kalamazoo
Coordinates: 28°50′46″N 081°06′36″W
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Volusia
Elevation	20 ft (6 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
enter ZIP code	32764
Area code(s)	386
GNIS feature ID	294821[1]

History

According to longtime area residents, Kalamazoo was named for the many people who moved there from Michigan.[2]

The name may also allude to celery farming in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for which that city was noted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3] In 1908, a company was capitalized with $25,000 to develop a celery farm on 10,000 acres in Kalamazoo, Florida, following on the success of celery farming in nearby Sanford. Its president was C. F. Walker of Savannah, Georgia.[4]

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