Dade City, officially the City of Dade City, is a city in and the county seat of Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is located in the Tampa Bay Area, northeast of Tampa and southwest of Orlando. The population was 7,275 as of the 2020 census. The current Mayor of Dade City is Scott Black. The city was named after U.S. Army Major Francis L. Dade who was killed alongside most of the men he led from Fort Brooke to Fort King in the Dade Battle, which marked the beginning of the Second Seminole War.