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.
Then and now
1946 to 1987The 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.


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
- Palm Beach Winter Clublisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresNorth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,015 | |
| 2020 | 13,162 | +1,147 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Riviera Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Riviera Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
47 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 25 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2009 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HOOD ROAD |
| 7 August 2005 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | SCHOOL CMND |
| 21 August 2011 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WATSON (50) |
| 13 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BANYON CMND |
| 10 August 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | GULF STREAM COMMAND |
| 8 July 1998 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Lightning | North Palm Beach | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Palm Beach | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Palm Beach | $5,000 | A T.V. station reported thunderstorm wind gusts uprooted trees and damaged house awnings. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Palm Beach | $2,000 | Social 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 2022 | Funnel Cloud | North 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North 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 2005 | Funnel Cloud | North Palm Beach | - | Tower personnel saw three funnel clouds near North Palm Beach Municipal Airport. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Park | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Monet | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Juno Ridge | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Palm Lake Estates South | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Palm Beach Isles | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Palm Beach Gardens | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Riviera Beach | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Juno Isles | 3.4 miles | 14 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2378447 | The 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.







