Key Haven is an unincorporated

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 community on Raccoon Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys

Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry...

 about a mile east of the island of Key West

Key West

Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys. Key West is home to the southernmost point in the Continental United States; the island is about from Cuba....

. It is a suburb of greater Key West, and houses approximately a thousand residents. The city limits of Key West on northern Stock Island

Stock Island

Stock Island is an island in the lower Florida Keys immediately east of Key West . Immediately northwest is Key Haven , from which it is connected by causeway with US 1 . The part north of U.S...

 are separated from Key Haven by a channel about a quarter mile wide.

It is off of the northeast side of Stock Island, and connected by fill to U.S. 1

U.S. Route 1 in Florida

U.S. Route 1 in Florida runs along the state's east coast from Key West to its crossing of the St. Marys River into Georgia north of Boulogne, and south of Folkston. US 1 was designated through Florida when the U.S. Highway System was established in 1926.US 1 runs in the state of Florida, and...

 (the Overseas Highway

Overseas Highway

The Overseas Highway is a highway carrying U.S. Route 1 through the Florida Keys. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. Completed in 1912, the Overseas Railroad was heavily damaged and partially...

) via Key Haven Road, its primary road, just east of mile marker 5.

Key Haven was chosen as the location of The Real World

The Real World

The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...

 Key West, which appeared in 2006. The Real World home is located at the end of Driftwood Drive.

The island being only 2–3 ft above the high tide mark, was literally covered with 4–5 ft of seawater from the 8 ft (2.4 m) storm surge of Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Wilma was the twenty-second storm , thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and fourth Category 5 hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 season...

on October 24, 2005. Just about every car on the island was destroyed, and many homes damaged.