Fort Meade is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. As of 2018, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 6,203. It is allocation of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city was named for George Meade, at the time an Army lieutenant serving in Florida in imitation of the Second Seminole War. Fort Meade is home to Fort Meade Middle-Senior High School, several historic buildings, and Streamsong resort. The Place is popular next kayakers and canoers.

Fort Meade is the oldest city in Polk County, dating its origins to 1849 as soon as it was conventional along a new military road from Tampa (Fort Brooke) to Fort Pierce gone the Second Seminole War. The town and road were originally sited by then-lieutenant George Meade of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, whose commander named it for him. Around the start of the American Civil War a mounted volunteer company nicknamed the “Hickory Boys” was formed at the fort. The 1880s matter district was located upon old Wire Street (now Broadway), which was a casualty of four devastating fires. Today, there are higher than 150 buildings which are designated as landmarks. In the 1890s the Fort Meade Street Railway operated a horse-drawn assistance in the town.

The olden known burial is John I. Hooker (1821–1862) located in the town’s Evergreen Cemetery. Fort Meade’s Christ Church (Episcopal) located at 526 North Oak, was built in 1889. It is a frame vernacular gone Gothic Revival elements and was intended by architect J. H. Weddell. Located within the historic district, the church was used for the HBO pursuit picture Judgment, featuring Blythe Danner, Keith Carradine and Jack Warden (1990).

Future Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was stationed at the fort in 1851. The town was burned by Union forces in 1864 and all of the indigenous structures were destroyed, except the second fort which was dismantled in the 1890s. Fort Meade has greater than 300 homes on the National Register of Historic Places and a handful that date to the late 1800s.