Hawthorne
Bonita Springs, FL · 439 homes · City of Bonita Springs
zone 1 · 2 Surge
zone — Flood zone
county map data
not available
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Hawthorne at a glance
About Hawthorne
Hawthorne is a gated community of 439 homes in Bonita Springs. Day to day, the nearest golf course, Bonita Fairways Golf Club, is about 1 mile straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, Bonita Springs Public Library, is about 1.2 miles away; the nearest hospital, NCH Healthcare Bonita, about 3.2 miles.
Amenities — amenities compiled from Hawthorne community and Bonita Springs market materials (confirm current amenities with the association); Hawthorne is an amenity-based (non-golf) gated community — include a gated entry, two community clubhouses, each with a covered patio, meeting room and kitchen, two community swimming pools and spas, two fitness rooms, two tennis courts plus a pickleball court, eight lakes and landscaped grounds with an active social calendar.
On paper, the community spans evacuation zones A · B. The average assessed just value across its 488 residential parcels was $511,690 in the county's 2026 roll.
Two things separate Hawthorne from much of the newer Bonita Springs and Estero market, and a buyer should weigh both before the amenity list. The first is cost structure: unlike the CDD-financed communities that fill much of the region, Hawthorne carries no community development district. On a sampled 2025 tax bill the recurring public charges came to a City of Bonita Springs stormwater assessment of $50 and a Lee County Solid Waste charge of $358.45 — $408.45 in non-ad-valorem items, with no multi-thousand-dollar CDD line. The second is what Hawthorne deliberately is not: a golf community. Many neighbors bundle club membership into the home; Hawthorne has no course to fund. Its amenities — two clubhouses, two pools and spas, two fitness rooms, tennis and a pickleball court, set among eight lakes — are shared by every resident through the Hawthorne Community Association, Inc., which removes a recurring cost bundled-golf communities build in.
It also helps to understand how Hawthorne is assembled, because listing searches can be confusing. A single-family section of roughly 307 homes sits alongside coach-home neighborhoods — Chesapeake Cove and the smaller Hide Away Cove — all under one master association; market materials attribute the development to DiVosta Homes (a Pulte builder) in the mid-2000s. Lee County GIS records about 439 units across the two mapped neighborhoods, while the community's own count runs a little higher, near 463, because the smallest coach-home group isn't separately mapped. Most homes were built between 2006 and 2013.
A few practical notes for anyone getting serious: the community falls in evacuation zones A and B, so confirm your specific parcel's flood zone and storm plan, and check wired-internet options (Xfinity cable is the high-capacity wired provider shown at the sampled address; no fiber appears there). Above all, confirm current dues, rules, and exactly what they cover directly with the association. This page is an independent, records-based starting point — not affiliated with the HOA, builder, or developer.
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Live status from the National Weather Service and NOAA, each item stamped with the time it was checked; anything past its freshness window is removed rather than shown as current. In an approaching storm, rely on official channels first: Lee County Emergency Management ↗.
This is county map data with a retrieval date — not a flood determination for insurance or lending purposes. Confirm your parcel with the official county lookup or your insurer.
Home & property numbers
24 sales · FL DOR codes 01–02 · retrieved Aug 21 2026
Recorded prices, not an appraisal — and not a valuation of any one home.
Typical build years (5th–95th pct) · Property Appraiser · Aug 21 2026
A typical build-era band — the 5th–95th percentile of parcel build years, so a stray older or newer parcel doesn't widen it. It says nothing about how many homes went up when.
2020–2024 ACS 5-year · B19013 · retrieved Aug 4 2026 · 2 tracts
Census tracts cover an area wider than the community’s own boundary.
What it costs to live here
A worked annual example — the shape of a bill here, not a quote for any home.
Worked example — 12.797 mills (the district most parcels are in) on a $500,000 rounded assessed value before exemptions (from the community’s average just value). Your own bill moves with exemptions and assessment caps.
No CDD; other non-ad-valorem items on the sampled 2025 bill total $408.45.
Hawthorne does not publish a fee schedule. Confirm the current amount with the HOA office before you close.
Millage Book 2025 · sampled 2025 bill
Association fees are not published here, so they are absent from this bar rather than estimated into it. Varies by lot and home; never a quote.
County roll math, one sampled tax bill and each association’s own published figures — we publish fee amounts only from official documents; amounts change annually and vary by home and exemptions. Never a quote, never tax advice.
Golf & recreation
The three closest courses to Hawthorne, nearest first.
Straight-line distances from the community center · checked Aug 2026.
Dining nearby
Nearest 8 licensed establishments · within 5 miDinner without the drive — the closest kitchens to the gate, nearest first.
From Florida food-service license records · straight-line distances · checked Aug 2026.
Local essentials
Nearest schools by distance — never an attendance-zone assignment. Official school finder ↗
Public, open ramps only.
Straight-line distances on a six-mile scale — › means a bit further out.
What's on nearby
For everything beyond the gate — seasonal markets, boat parades, waterfront festivals — our Southwest Florida events guide tracks the calendar county-wide.
Utilities & providers
Territory read at the community centroid — not a per-parcel guarantee.
Reported at a sampled in-community address — availability varies parcel to parcel.
Service-territory map data (checked Aug 2026) — the provider serving the area, not a guarantee of connection for any individual parcel. Confirm service and rates with the provider before relying on them.
Dates that matter in Lee County
You must own and occupy the home as your permanent residence as of January 1 to claim it for that tax year; buy after January 1 and you file for the following year.
Property Appraiser ↗The proposed-tax notice from the Property Appraiser; not a bill. You then have 25 days from its mailing date to petition the Value Adjustment Board.
FL Dept. of Revenue ↗Early-payment discounts: 4% in November, 3% December, 2% January, 1% February; a deadline landing on a weekend or holiday extends to the next business day.
Tax Collector ↗The Atlantic season per the National Hurricane Center; storms can occur outside these dates.
National Hurricane Center ↗County and state dates — the same for every Lee County community, each linked to its official source (checked Aug 2026).
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