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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.

Hillsboro Beach within Broward 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 Hillsboro Beach, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Hillsboro Beach, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Hillsboro 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,875
20201,987+112 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

5 since 2010

Regional 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/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
26 June 2012Smoking3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUGAR SAND PARK ( 50 )
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHLAND SCRUB (6)
26 February 2010Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEERFIELD FIRE
25 February 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINEAPPLE (06)
19 January 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEERFIELD PARK (06 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pompand PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deerfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010LightningHillsboro Beach1 hurtA 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 2012HailHillsboro Beach-A spotter reported quarter sized hail to almost half dollar size along with estimated wind gusts of 35-45 mph.

Every storm recorded in Broward 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
Coral Villas0.2 miles17
Floresta Estates0.6 miles17
Eastway Park0.6 miles17
Barwal1.2 miles17
Fairlawn1.2 miles17
The Cove1.2 miles17
Shorewood1.3 miles17
Lighthouse Point1.3 miles17

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1014022The 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.