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History · Sea Ranch Lakes

Sea Ranch Lakes dates to 1959

Most of Sea Ranch Lakes was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1968. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1949 on, and the census since 1960.

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0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 1.0
Quick answers

How Sea Ranch Lakes began

When was Sea Ranch Lakes founded?

1959

Sea Ranch Lakes dates its founding to 1959 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1960.

First census: 170 in 19602020 census: 54067 years
Founding year: Wikidata.The full story ↓

What stands out about Sea Ranch Lakes’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,392 in 2000; 540 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Sea Ranch Lakes’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sea Ranch Lakes’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewFlorida Marianne ATM 1979: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Sea Ranch Lakes, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001960198020002020Peak: 1,392

Peaked at 1,392 in 2000; 540 people lived here in 2020.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sea Ranch Lakes’ Wikipedia page.

The story

How Sea Ranch Lakes came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sea Ranch Lakes.

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Between 1926 and 1929, the plot of beachfront land was known as the "Ausherman Tract" (named after C.C. Ausherman, who was the first president of Fort Lauderdale's Realty Board), and was first owned by realtor Lovick Miller wanted to sell the oceanfront property north of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, who bought that land in 1926, before the Great Depression. Around 1928 or 1929, he sold it to another Fort Lauderdale pioneer, John Lochrie. Soon after, Lochrie wanted to sell the area, and Miller suggested Robert Hayes Gore (R.H. Gore) as a potential buyer.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Sea Ranch Lakes, 1949 to 2000

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 1959
    FoundingSea Ranch Lakes is established
  4. 1979In the archiveFlorida Marianne ATM 1979
  5. 21st century
  6. 2000CensusPopulation peaks at 1,392
By decade

Sea Ranch Lakes, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1970s1 item
Florida Marianne ATM 19791979Florida Marianne ATM 1979
1980s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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On the map

Sea Ranch Lakes on the map, 1949 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sea Ranch Lakes. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Sea Ranch Lakes on the 1949 USGS mapSea Ranch Lakes on the 1962 USGS mapSea Ranch Lakes on the 1983 USGS map1949Pompano Beach sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Sea Ranch Lakes.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Florida Marianne ATM 1979
Retake this viewFlorida Marianne ATM 1979, 1979

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Sea Ranch Lakes’ page.

Retake this view · +15
Famous people

Famous people close to Sea Ranch Lakes

Nobody well known was born in Sea Ranch Lakes itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Ariana GrandeAmerican singer, songwriter, and actress · b. 1993
Chris EvertAmerican former tennis player · b. 1954
Victoria JusticeAmerican actress and singer · b. 1993
XXXTentacionAmerican rapper · b. 1998
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Norman ReedusAmerican actor · b. 1969
Sofia CarsonAmerican singer, actress, dancer and songwriter · b. 1993
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Lauderdale-by-the-SeaIts storyD−

Questions about Sea Ranch Lakes’ history

What year was Sea Ranch Lakes founded?

In 1959, according to Wikidata. the census of 1960 counted 170 people here.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (8), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.