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Loxahatchee Groves, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Royal Palm Beach-West Jupiter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33470. The Survey maps it on the Loxahatchee quadrangle. 3,355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Loxahatchee Groves 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 Loxahatchee Groves, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Loxahatchee Groves, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Loxahatchee Groves grew from 3,180 to 3,355 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
20103,180
20203,355+175 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Loxahatchee Groves between 1992 and 2019, burning about 992 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Natural26
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
25 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCOLLECTING CANAL FIRE
9 August 2004Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLION COUNTRY FIRE
4 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALM BEACH LANDSCAPE FIRE
4 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMADISON COMMD. FIRE
24 August 1996Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2000Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1996Natural4.0 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
Wellington2.7 miles14
Royal Palm Beach3.1 miles14
Westlake5.3 miles12
Twentymile Bend5.8 miles11
Golden Lakes6.2 miles14
Palm Beach Farms7.0 miles14
Poincianna Place7.6 miles14
The Acreage7.6 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 Loxahatchee GrovesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155294The 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 286185. 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.