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More historic than 2% of U.S. towns · #598 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of Pinecrest was built recently: 0.3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1969. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1950 on, and the census since 2000.
Pinecrest dates its founding to 1996 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 2000.
More historic than 2% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pinecrest is more historic than 2% of U.S. towns, #598 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Pinecrest’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (33% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pinecrest’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Pinecrest.
During the 1900s, Miami pioneer and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler used the property at U.S. 1 and Southwest 102 Street as a staging area during the construction of the Overseas Railroad to the Florida Keys.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveArt Linkletter holding a record by Joe Williams while standing with unidentified people
In the archiveDestruction following hurricane andrew2 decades in the archive, from the 1980s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2019PCMP Music @ The Gardens
2017Shula Autographs Expressway SignDocument
2016Pinecrest Service Station
20122003 Chevy Tracker
2008Pinecrest Parkway
2006Florida Botanical 01
2006Flagler Grove Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
2005Gary Matzner Dedicates Wifi at City Parks
2004Village of pinecrest swearing in gary matzner evelyn
2004Gary and Family at Swearing-in of MayorEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pinecrest. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pinecrest.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Pinecrest’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 18,223 and 19,055 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pinecrest’s Wikipedia page.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1996, according to Wikidata. the census of 2000 counted 19,055 people here.
Pinecrest is more historic than 2% of U.S. towns, #598 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
0.3% of Pinecrest’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1969.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (12), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
