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Greenacres City, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lake Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33463. The Survey maps it on the Greenacres City quadrangle. 43,990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Greenacres City 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 Greenacres City, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Greenacres City, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Greenacres City grew from 37,573 to 43,990 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
201037,573
202043,990+6,417 (+17%)

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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Greenacres City between 1992 and 2018, burning about 379 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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 minor11
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE CATCHMEN COMMAND
6 July 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service110TH COMMAND FIRE
21 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service836
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
6 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST HILL COMMAND
26 May 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOKEEHEELEE THREE ( 50 )
26 May 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Greenacres City: 2 past producers. 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
Golden Lakes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lantan Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenacres City in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 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
November 2000Tornado (F0)Greenacres City$100,000A tornado touched down in a mobile home park near Rachel and Susan Drives and moved into a second mobile home park before lifting near Janet Drive and Sunset Trail. The tornado damaged the roofs of two homes as well as awnings, antennae, and outbuildings of several others .
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenacres City$20,000The overhanging roof on a gas station was blown down.
March 2016LightningGreenacres City$5,000Lightning struck a house on Purdy Lane in West Palm Beach with two people inside at the time. No injuries were reported, but a small fire was started by the strike. The fire was quickly extinguished, leaving a cup sized hole in the roof.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindGreenacres City$1,000A member of the public reported a large tree down in Palm Springs near Military Trail between Forest Hill Blvd and Lake Worth Road.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenacres City$1,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenacres City-Broadcast media reported a large tree blown over in Greenacres due to strong winds.
June 2009HailGreenacres City-Quarter size hail reported. Rain rate estimated at about 3 inches per hour.
August 2002Funnel CloudGreenacres City-The public reported a funnel cloud.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Greenacres City-Brief touchdown with no damage reported by Palm Beach County sheriff. Possible Gustnado as convective cores where west of area.
June 2001HailGreenacres City-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
Hometown Lake Worth Village0.7 miles14
Palm Springs1.8 miles16
Poincianna Place1.9 miles14
Florida Gardens2.6 miles14
Atlantis2.6 miles14
Lake Clarke Shores3.0 miles16
Seminole Manor3.1 miles14
Palm Beach Farms3.4 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 Greenacres CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990948The 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 283408. 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.