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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.

Boynton Beach within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1945 to 1987

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Boynton Beach, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Boynton Beach, surveyed 1945

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

Population over time

2 figures

Boynton 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.

YearPeople Change
201068,217
202080,380+12,163 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMINOR ROAD FIRE
26 May 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.2 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHC FIRE
7 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHYPOLUXO FIRE
19 February 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNICKELS (50)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bell Engineering - Bell Farms PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1998Rip CurrentBoynton Beach1 killedStrong 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 2007LightningBoynton Beach$875,000Three 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 2001Tornado (F1)Boynton Beach$100,000A 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 2002Thunderstorm WindBoynton Beach$10,000Minor damage reported in a trailer park.
April 2000Tornado (F0)Boynton Beach$5,000A 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 2012Thunderstorm WindBoynton Beach-A trained spotter reported trees downed with estimated wind gusts of 60 mph near Interstate 95.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBoynton Beach-Public estimated up to 60 mph wind gusts from a thunderstorm just inland of Boynton Beach.
April 2007HailBoynton Beach-Nickel to golf ball size hail reported north of Boynton Beach Boulevard, just east of Florida Turnpike.
September 2004HailBoynton Beach-A SKYWARN spotter reported hail three-quarter of and inch in diameter.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBoynton Beach-A SKYWARN spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBoynton Beach-A large ficus tree was uprooted in west Boynton Beach.
September 2001Tornado (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 2000Tornado (F0)Boynton Beach-A brief tornado touched down near Congress Avenue and Boynton Beach Boulevard.
September 2000FloodBoynton Beach-Street flooding was reported in Boynton Beach.
September 2000Tornado (F0)Boynton Beach-The public reported a tornado touched down near Woolbright Road and 23 Avenue.
July 1998WaterspoutBoynton Beach-USCG reported three waterspouts 20 to 30 nm east of Boynton Beach.
November 1998Tornado (F0)Boynton Beach-Brief tornado touchdown near the turnpike and Hypoluxo Road did no known damage.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBoynton Beach-Trees blown down at Lechalet Blvd and Military Trail in Boynton Beach.
April 2000Funnel CloudBoynton Beach-no account filed
November 1999WaterspoutBoynton Beach-no account filed
August 1999Funnel CloudBoynton Beach-no account filed
June 1999Funnel CloudBoynton Beach-no account filed
August 1996WaterspoutBoynton Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palm Beach County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Ocean Ridge1.0 miles14
Briny Breezes1.4 miles14
Chapel Hill1.9 miles17
Gulf Stream2.3 miles17
Country Club Trail2.8 miles14
Golf2.9 miles17
Hypoluxo2.9 miles14
Manalapan3.2 miles14

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q896048The 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.