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Canal Point, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33438. The Survey maps it on the Pahokee quadrangle. 344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Canal Point within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canal Point, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Canal Point, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Canal Point fell from 367 to 344 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
2010367
2020344-23 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Canal Point between 1992 and 2012, burning about 64 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
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROADSIDE ( 50 )
5 June 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service842
24 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGLADES FIRE
27 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOWER PLANT FIRE
12 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceONE STOP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bryant1.1 miles10
Pahokee3.2 miles10
Pelican Lake3.5 miles10
Padgett Island3.5 miles10
Fremd Village3.7 miles10
Sand Cut3.9 miles10
Cardwell6.6 miles10
Runyon8.9 miles12

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 Canal PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346519The 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 279964. 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.