Boynton Beach, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Boynton Beach-Delray Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33435. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. 80,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1945 to 1987The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1945 against another survey:
On record in Boynton Beach
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Boynton Schoollisted 1994
Boynton Woman's Clublisted 1979
Lofthus (shipwreck)listed 2004
Population over time
2 figuresBoynton Beach grew from 68,217 to 80,380 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68,217 | |
| 2020 | 80,380 | +12,163 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1945 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Boynton Beach between 2000 and 2017, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | MINOR ROAD FIRE |
| 26 May 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.2 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HC FIRE |
| 7 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | HYPOLUXO FIRE |
| 19 February 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | NICKELS (50) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boynton Beach: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Engineering - Bell Farms Pit | Sand | Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boynton Beach in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 3 waterspout, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1998 | Rip Current | Boynton Beach | 1 killed | Strong easterly winds resulted in rip currents. 20 year old man was last seen surfing but time of drowning is unknown. Lifeguards reported several rescues. |
| July 2007 | Lightning | Boynton Beach | $875,000 | Three homes were struck by lightning in Boynton Beach during a 48-minute period on July 4th. The area affected was between Congress Avenue and Jog Road. ||One home in the 12300 block of Forest Greens Drive suffered about $100,000 in fire and smoke damage to the attic. A second home in the 9700 block of Coronado Lakes Drive suffered about $25,000 in damage when a tower atop the home was struck, with tiles being torn off the roof. ||The third home suffered the most damaged, estimated at $750,000, in the 4100 block of Juniper Terrace. Fire started in the attic and eventually collapsed a portion of the roof. Sixty percent of the roof burned away.||Over 600 lightning strikes were recorded in Palm Beach County between 3 and 5 PM. |
| August 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Boynton Beach | $100,000 | A tornado touched down near Greenbriar Drive and moved west northwest. A Chickee Hut at the Ann Marie Motel was damaged as were a fence and a portion of the motel roof. Power lines were blown down onto I-95 and trees were uprooted and street signs blown down along the path. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boynton Beach | $10,000 | Minor damage reported in a trailer park. |
| April 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Boynton Beach | $5,000 | A waterspout moved ashore from the intracoastal waterway and did minor damage to a restaurant at a yacht club near U.S.1 and Hypoluxo Road. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boynton Beach | - | A trained spotter reported trees downed with estimated wind gusts of 60 mph near Interstate 95. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boynton Beach | - | Public estimated up to 60 mph wind gusts from a thunderstorm just inland of Boynton Beach. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Boynton Beach | - | Nickel to golf ball size hail reported north of Boynton Beach Boulevard, just east of Florida Turnpike. |
| September 2004 | Hail | Boynton Beach | - | A SKYWARN spotter reported hail three-quarter of and inch in diameter. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boynton Beach | - | A SKYWARN spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boynton Beach | - | A large ficus tree was uprooted in west Boynton Beach. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Boynton Beach | - | The Sheriff's Office reported a tornado on the ground for about one half mile. The tornado did no known damage and caused no casualties. |
| April 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Boynton Beach | - | A brief tornado touched down near Congress Avenue and Boynton Beach Boulevard. |
| September 2000 | Flood | Boynton Beach | - | Street flooding was reported in Boynton Beach. |
| September 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Boynton Beach | - | The public reported a tornado touched down near Woolbright Road and 23 Avenue. |
| July 1998 | Waterspout | Boynton Beach | - | USCG reported three waterspouts 20 to 30 nm east of Boynton Beach. |
| November 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Boynton Beach | - | Brief tornado touchdown near the turnpike and Hypoluxo Road did no known damage. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boynton Beach | - | Trees blown down at Lechalet Blvd and Military Trail in Boynton Beach. |
| April 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Boynton Beach | - | no account filed |
| November 1999 | Waterspout | Boynton Beach | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Boynton Beach | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Boynton Beach | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Waterspout | Boynton Beach | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Ridge | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Briny Breezes | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Chapel Hill | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Gulf Stream | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Country Club Trail | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Golf | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hypoluxo | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Manalapan | 3.2 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Boynton Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q896048 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 279303. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







