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Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. However, development of the city did not begin until fifty years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend, in what is now known as the Sailboat Bend neighborhood, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale, who was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. The city is a major tourist destination, with ten million visitors in two thousand six. The city is a major yachting center, with forty-two thousand resident yachts and one hundred marinas and boatyards. Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs host over forty-one hundred restaurants and one hundred twenty nightclubs. Fort Lauderdale, unlike many cities, has an official program for designating and recognizing neighborhoods. Under the Neighborhood Organization Recognition Program, more than sixty distinct neighborhoods have received official recognition from the city. Additional twenty-five to thirty neighborhoods exist without official recognition, although the city's neighborhood map displays them as well. Fort Lauderdale has a two season wet-dry climate with hot, wet summers and cooler, dry winters. Seventy percent of the city's annual rainfall occurs during the five month summer period. The hurricane season is between June first and November, thirtieth with major hurricanes most likely to affect Florida in September and October. The most recent storms to directly affect the city were Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma, both of which struck the city in two thousand five; other direct hits were Hurricane Cleo in nineteen sixty-five, Hurricane King in nineteen fifty and the nineteen forty-seven Fort Lauderdale Hurricane.
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