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North Palm Beach, 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. The Survey maps it on the Riviera Beach quadrangle. 13,162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

North Palm Beach 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 North Palm Beach, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of North Palm Beach, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

On record in North Palm 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

North Palm Beach grew from 12,015 to 13,162 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
201012,015
202013,162+1,147 (+10%)

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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of North Palm Beach between 1992 and 2017, burning about 750 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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 2009Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHOOD ROAD
7 August 2005Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSCHOOL CMND
21 August 2011Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWATSON (50)
13 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBANYON CMND
10 August 2006Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGULF STREAM COMMAND
8 July 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Palm Beach in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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 2000LightningNorth Palm Beach$2,500,000no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindNorth Palm Beach$20,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Palm Beach$5,000A T.V. station reported thunderstorm wind gusts uprooted trees and damaged house awnings.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Palm Beach$2,000Social media report of large hardwood tree branch downed and wooden fence knocked down off Burns Rd near Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Time estimated.
March 2022Funnel CloudNorth Palm Beach-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near I-95 and Blue Heron Blvd associated with a strong thunderstorm moving east. Dime size hail was also observed near this location.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Palm Beach-Palm Beach Gardens PD reported multiple power lines down along PGA Boulevard and Military Trail. Hail up to 0.50 was also reported in the vicinity. Time based on radar wind signature of over 60 mph about 300 feet above the surface.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Palm Beach-Picture received via social media showed large tree down on cars in a parking lot at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens. Other pictures received of broken large tree branches in nearby North Palm Beach. Time estimated and based on radar wind signature of at least 60 mph at about 300 feet above the ground.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Palm Beach-Florida Power and Light reported to the Palm Beach Post that a tree fell on powerlines in North Palm Beach...near 1660 12 Oaks Way. It was also reported that there was tree damage at a condominium development in the same area.
June 2005Funnel CloudNorth Palm Beach-Tower personnel saw three funnel clouds near North Palm Beach Municipal Airport.

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
Lake Park1.4 miles14
Monet1.6 miles14
Juno Ridge2.4 miles14
Palm Lake Estates South2.8 miles14
Palm Beach Isles3.0 miles14
Palm Beach Gardens3.0 miles16
Riviera Beach3.2 miles14
Juno Isles3.4 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 North Palm BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2378447The 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 287845. 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.