Port St. Lucie is a city in St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. It is the most populous municipality in the county taking into account a population of 204,851 at the 2020 census. It is located 125 miles (201 km) southeast of Orlando and 113 miles (182 km) north of Miami. The Port St. Lucie Metropolitan Area includes the counties of St. Lucie and Martin and as of 2016 had an estimated population of 465,208. Port St. Lucie is along with contained within the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Port St. Lucie Combined Statistical Area gone an estimated population of 6,832,588.

The name “St. Lucie” is originally derived from the name of a settlement close Jupiter Inlet which was founded on St. Lucia’s day in 1566. Due to numerous errors, the name far ahead came to be joined with the present day town of St. Lucie Village, Florida, north of present-day Port St. Lucie. After “La Florida” and “St. Augustine,” it is the oldest place reveal in the United States. In the to the fore 1890s, an in advance pioneer harmony named Spruce Bluff was located along the St. Lucie River, which consisted of a community of several families later than a school, post office, pineapple plantation, and sawmill. Currently, the land the deal was located on is allocation of the Spruce Bluff Preserve. Along as soon as an obsolete cemetery near the antiquated settlement, the preserve also contains a hiking area, canoe access, observation areas, and a prehistoric Ais Indian mound located on the southern subside of the preserve.

In the 1950s, the land that would eventually become Port St. Lucie was a largely uninhabited tract of house south of White City, composed of a fishing camp (Burt Pruitt’s Fishin’ Farm) along the St. Lucie River, a few farms and businesses close U.S. 1. In 1958, with a budget of $5, the General Development Corporation (GDC) purchased the River Park expansion and 40,000 acres (160 km²) along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River. In 1959, the GDC opened its first bridge higher than the St. Lucie River, allowing for refer automobile admission to Port St. Lucie.

By February 25, 1961, there were 250 homes in the extra city. GDC requested the let pass legislature to incorporate 70 miles (110 km), along following the River Park settlement, into the City of Port St. Lucie. River Park did not incorporate into the city at the demand of its residents. Port St. Lucie became a city on April 27, 1961, with the alleyway of House Bill No. 953, proposed by State Representative Rupert Smith and official by Florida Governor C. Farris Bryant.