Hillsboro Beach, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Deerfield Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33062. The Survey maps it on the Boca Raton quadrangle. 1,987 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1946 to 1987The 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.


Compare 1946 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresHillsboro Beach grew from 1,875 to 1,987 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,875 | |
| 2020 | 1,987 | +112 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Boca Raton quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Boca Raton quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Boca Raton quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro Beach between 2010 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 2012 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SUGAR SAND PARK ( 50 ) |
| 24 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | HIGHLAND SCRUB (6) |
| 26 February 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DEERFIELD FIRE |
| 25 February 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | PINEAPPLE (06) |
| 19 January 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DEERFIELD PARK (06 ) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hillsboro Beach: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pompand Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Deerfield Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| H L Westberry Rock and Fill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pit No. 4 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro Beach in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2012: 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Lightning | Hillsboro Beach | 1 hurt | A boater was struck by lightning just east of Lighthouse Point. When the lightning struck the boat the antenna broke and shards of fiberglass shot into the boater's arm. The man was brought into a marina at Pompano Beach then taken to North Broward Medical Center, But did not appear to have serious injuries. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hillsboro Beach | - | A spotter reported quarter sized hail to almost half dollar size along with estimated wind gusts of 35-45 mph. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coral Villas | 0.2 miles | 17 | |
| Floresta Estates | 0.6 miles | 17 | |
| Eastway Park | 0.6 miles | 17 | |
| Barwal | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Fairlawn | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| The Cove | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Shorewood | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Lighthouse Point | 1.3 miles | 17 |
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 Hillsboro Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1014022 | The 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 284035. 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.








