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Key Haven is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
on Raccoon Key, an island in the lower
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about a mile (1.6 km) east of the island of
Key West Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, at the southern end of the U.S. state of Florida. Together with all or parts of the separate islands of Dredgers Key, Fleming Key, Sunset Key, and the northern part of Stock Island, it con ...
. It is a suburb of greater Key West, and houses around a thousand residents. The city limits of Key West on northern Stock Island are separated from Key Haven by a channel about a quarter mile (400 m) wide.


History and Geology

It lies off the northeast side of Stock Island and is connected by fill to U.S. 1 (the
Overseas Highway The Overseas Highway is a highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys to Key West. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Ra ...
) via Key Haven Road, its primary road, just east of mile marker 5. Key Haven was chosen as the location of
The Real World ''The Real World'' (known as ''Real World'' from 2014 to 2017) is an American reality television series produced through MTV and Bunim/Murray Productions that most recently aired on Facebook Watch after airing on MTV from 1992 to 2017. It wa ...
Key West, which appeared in 2006. The Real World home is located at the end of Driftwood Drive. The island, being only above the high tide mark, was covered with of seawater from the
storm surge A storm surge, storm flood, tidal surge, or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low-pressure weather systems, such as cyclones. It is measured as the rise in water level above the ...
of
Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin and the second-most intense tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere, both based on barometric pressure, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Wilma's rapid intensifi ...
on October 24, 2005. Nearly every car on the island was destroyed, and many homes were damaged.


References

Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Florida Suburbs of Key West Unincorporated communities in Florida Populated coastal places in Florida on the Atlantic Ocean {{MonroeCountyFL-geo-stub