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Lake Harbor, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33440. The Survey maps it on the Lake Harbor quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Lake Harbor within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Harbor, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Lake Harbor, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Harbor fell from 195 to 49 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
2000195
201045-150 (-77%)
202049+4 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Lake Harbor between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 April 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE HAMILTON FIRE
21 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service958

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 Lake Harbor: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Rock Pit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Harbor in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 2010LightningLake Harbor$1,000The community Methodist Church in Lake Harbor was struck by lightning around mid day. The strike split the ceiling, noted by the wood that had fallen in the church aisles, and relocated the air conditioner cover to the front of the church. No water damage was noted from the thunderstorm, however phones and the air conditioner where out so Sunday services were relocated.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLake Harbor-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
Watson0.9 miles11
Mott2.9 miles11
Bean City2.9 miles11
Keela3.4 miles11
Vaughn5.1 miles11
South Bay5.6 miles12
Dahlberg6.3 miles12
Belle Glade Camp7.4 miles12

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 Lake HarborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2091135The 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 285247. 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.