Captiva, FL

Captiva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lee County, Florida, United States. The 2020 census counted 318, residents. Captiva is on Captiva Island. Captiva is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Travel, tourism, and hospitality are the number one industry on Captiva Island. Noted Captiva guests include Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Ding Darling. Captiva's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Florida setting. The local scoop is how Captiva's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Just offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, the island is north of Sanibel Island. But Gaspar's existence is sourced to an early 20th-century developer's advertising brochure and may be a fabrication. Captiva is in western Lee County.