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Golden Lakes, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Royal Palm Beach-West Jupiter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33411. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach Farms quadrangle. 6,694 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Golden Lakes 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 Golden Lakes, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Golden Lakes, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Golden Lakes between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,905 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 2 were 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 minor27
Natural20
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
4 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMADISON COMMD. FIRE
21 August 2000Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2001Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1996Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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 Golden Lakes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Okeechobee PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Lake Belvedere Estates1.8 miles14
Century Village2.1 miles14
Stacey Street2.2 miles16
Palm Beach Farms2.3 miles14
West Palm Beach Farms2.4 miles14
Haverhill2.5 miles16
Royal Palm Estates2.5 miles14
Schall Circle2.8 miles16

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 Golden LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2167911The 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 1867146. 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.