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Glen Ridge, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lake Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33406. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Glen Ridge within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glen Ridge, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Glen Ridge, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

On record in Glen Ridge

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Glen Ridge fell from 276 to 217 between 2000 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
2000276
2010219-57 (-21%)
2020217-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Glen Ridge between 1995 and 2017, burning about 138 acres in total. 2 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
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
22 May 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCONGRESS COMMAND
14 May 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 April 1995Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 April 1998Misuse of fire by a minor50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 April 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 April 1995Debris and open burning20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Ridge in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
March 2009Tornado (EF0)Glen Ridge$25,000A second tornado touchdown occurred in West Palm Beach near Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and Australian Avenue. This is the same storm that produced the tornado in Palm Beach Gardens, but eyewitness reports and photographs indicate a likely second tornado touchdown in the West Palm Beach area. Damage was minor (EF0) consisting of downed traffic signals, tree branches broken off, and a bus bench flipped over.
April 2022Funnel CloudGlen Ridge-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near Lake Magnolia/Clear Lake Road in West Palm Beach.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindGlen Ridge-Large branches down around Roosevelt Elementary School. Radar estimated winds of 60 to 70 mph in the area at time of event.

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
Cloud Lake0.5 miles16
Lake Clarke Shores1.7 miles16
Gun Club Estates1.8 miles16
Belvedere Homes2.2 miles16
Golfview2.4 miles16
Palm Springs2.6 miles16
West Gate2.6 miles16
Royal Palm Estates2.8 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 Glen RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1992826The 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 295317. 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.

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.