pembroke pines, Florida

The city’s name, Pembroke Pines, is traced back to Sir Edward J. Reed, a member of Britain’s Parliament for the County of Pembroke from 1874 to 1880, who in 1882 formed the Florida Land and Mortgage Company to purchase from Hamilton Disston a total of 2 million acres of mostly swampland located throughout the southern half of Florida. Pembroke Pines has a total area of 34.8 square miles, of which 33.1 square miles are land and 1.7 square miles are covered by water, making it one of the largest cities in Broward County. A 2017 study put the city in third place for US cities most vulnerable to coastal flooding, with 116,000 residents living within FEMA’s coastal floodplain.