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Lake Worth Beach, 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 33460. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. 42,219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Lake Worth Beach 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 Lake Worth Beach, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Lake Worth Beach, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

On record in Lake Worth Beach

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Worth Beach grew from 35,133 to 42,219 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
200035,133
201034,910-223 (-1%)
202042,219+7,309 (+21%)

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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lake Worth Beach between 2002 and 2008, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMINOR ROAD FIRE
22 May 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCONGRESS COMMAND
19 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.2 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Lantana2.0 miles14
South Palm Beach2.1 miles14
Lake Clarke Shores2.3 miles16
Palm Springs2.5 miles16
Atlantis2.9 miles14
Seminole Manor3.2 miles14
Manalapan3.3 miles14
Hypoluxo Village3.4 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 Lake Worth BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984358The 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 285292. 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.