Official Name: | Kalamazoo |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Image Alt: | Kalamazoo, Florida |
Pushpin Map: | Volusia |
Coordinates: | 28.8461°N -81.11°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Established Title: | Settled |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Elevation M: | 6 |
Elevation Ft: | 20 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | enter ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 32764 |
Area Code: | 386 |
Blank Name Sec1: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info Sec1: | 294821[1] |
Kalamazoo is an unincorporated community located in southwest Volusia County, Florida. As of 2011, Kalamazoo is private property.
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]