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Lighthouse Point, 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 33064. The Survey maps it on the Boca Raton quadrangle. 10,486 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Lighthouse Point 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 Lighthouse Point, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Lighthouse Point, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

On record in Lighthouse Point

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

2 figures

Lighthouse Point grew from 10,344 to 10,486 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
201010,344
202010,486+142 (+1%)

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 Lighthouse Point between 2010 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 April 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGREEN ROAD (06)
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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lighthouse Point: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Deerfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Margate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pompano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tscotis Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
North Pompano Beach0.9 miles17
Pompano Beach Highlands1.2 miles17
Cresthaven1.2 miles17
Coral Villas1.2 miles17
Eastway Park1.3 miles17
Hillsboro Beach1.3 miles17
Collier Manor1.4 miles17
Floresta Estates1.6 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 Lighthouse PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994800The 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 285506. 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.