Ormond Beach is a city in east-central Florida in Volusia County. The population was 43,080 at the 2020 census. Ormond Beach lies directly north of Daytona Beach and is a principal city of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is known as the birthplace of speed, as ahead of time adopters of motorized cars flocked to its hard-packed beaches for yearlong entertainment, since paved roads were not still commonplace. Ormond Beach lies in Central Eastern Florida.

Ormond Beach was with within the domain of the Timucuan Indians. Ormond Beach was frequented by Timacuan Indians, but never in aspiration of fact inhabited until 1643 later than Quakers blown off course to the New England Place ran ashore. They established in a little encampment along the Atlantic shore. Early associates with against tribes were fruitful, however, in 1704 a local Timacuan chief, Oseanoha, led a proceedings of the encampment killing most of the population. In 1708 Spaniards inhabited the Place and laid affirmation until British govern began. The city is named for James Ormond I, an Anglo-Irish-Scottish sea captain commissioned by King Ferdinand VII of Spain to bring Franciscan settlers to this allowance of Florida. Ormond had served Britain and Spain in the Napoleonic Wars as a boat captain, and was rewarded for his facilities to Spain by King Ferdinand VII. Ormond cutting edge worked for the Scottish Indian trade company of Panton, Leslie & Company, and his armed brig was called the Somerset. After returning to Spanish control, in 1821, Florida was acquired from Spain by the United States, but hostilities during the Second Seminole War delayed deal until after 1842. In 1875, the city was founded as New Britain by inhabitants from New Britain, Connecticut, but would be incorporated in 1880 as Ormond for its early plantation owner.

With its hard, white beach, Ormond became popular for the rich seeking service from northern winters during the Floridian boom in tourism past the Civil War. The St. Johns and Halifax Railway arrived in 1886, and the first bridge across the Halifax River was built in 1887. John Anderson and James Downing Price opened the Ormond Hotel upon January 1, 1888. Henry Flagler bought the hotel in 1890 and expanded it to accommodate 600 guests. It would be one in a series of Gilded Age hotels catering to passengers aboard his Florida East Coast Railway, which had purchased the St. Johns & Halifax Railroad. Once a renowned landmark which was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, the hotel was razed in 1992.

On December 5, 1896, the Nathan F. Cobb, a wooden schooner built in 1890, ran aground on a sandbar off Ormond.