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Lake Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Riviera Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33403. It stands on Earman River. The Survey maps it on the Riviera Beach quadrangle. 9,047 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Lake Park 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 Lake Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Lake Park, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

On record in Lake Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Park grew from 8,721 to 9,047 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
20008,721
20108,155-566 (-6%)
20209,047+892 (+11%)

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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Lake Park between 1992 and 2017, burning about 675 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 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
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2005Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSCHOOL CMND
21 August 2011Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWATSON (50)
13 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBANYON CMND
7 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2003Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOKEECHOBEE COMMAND
1 July 2015Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTIMBER TRACE ( 50 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Park in 1 storm report in 2003: 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
August 2003LightningLake Park$80,000A lightning-initiated fire destroyed a three bedroom home No one was hurt but two cats died in the fire.

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
North Palm Beach1.4 miles14
Palm Beach Isles1.7 miles14
Riviera Beach1.8 miles14
Palm Beach Shores2.2 miles14
Palm Lake Estates South2.4 miles14
Mangonia Park2.8 miles14
Monet3.0 miles14
Juno Ridge3.3 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 Lake ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q629401The 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 285268. 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.

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.