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Oakland Park, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Lauderdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33334. It stands on North Fork Middle River. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lauderdale North quadrangle. 44,229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Oakland Park within Broward County

Then and now

1945 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakland Park, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Oakland Park, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

On record in Oakland Park

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oakland Park grew from 41,363 to 44,229 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
201041,363
202044,229+2,866 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Park: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Prospect PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Decker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gateway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Prospect Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland Park in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 funnel cloud, 4 flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2014LightningOakland Park1 hurtA United States Postal Service worker sustained serious burns as lightning struck nearby his truck. The electricity traveled through the truck as he was touching it. The location was 1781 E. Commercial Blvd. near Oakland Park.
June 2007Heavy RainOakland Park$50,000Torrential rains from strong thunderstorms collapsed the roof of a gym at La Roca Church located at 3000 Prospect Road in Oakland Park. The roof collapsed at about 5 PM EDT. Fire Rescue personnel estimated that between 1500 to 2000 square feet of the roof fell.||The building was not occupied at the time.
February 2024Tornado (EFU)Oakland Park$40,000The broadcast media and public described, via social media posts and pictures, a tornado occurred within a residential neighborhood in the city of Oakland Park. There were pictures of flipped cars and damaged trees. Time, path length, and path width are estimated based on radar and satellite imagery. Due to an inability to survey the area, maximum wind speeds and EF rating are unknown. Damage amount is estimated.
July 1999Tornado (F0)Oakland Park$25,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindOakland Park$10,000no account filed
October 2025FloodOakland Park-Wilton Manors police department reported on social media that multiple roads are experiencing flooding from heavy rainfall.
May 2022FloodOakland Park-WPLG-TV shared a video of a disabled vehicle near NE 6th Avenue in Oakland Park on a closed roadway covered with several inches of water. Measured rainfall amounts from the area were in the 2 to 3 inch range in under an hour.
June 2021FloodOakland Park-Local broadcast media reported street flooding in the Oakland Park area from todays repeated rounds of rainfall. Vehicles were having trouble clearing through the water. Nearby rain gauges and precipitation analyses indicate at least 3 inches of rain fell in the area.
October 2020FloodOakland Park-Photos via social media reported flooding of parking lot in Oakland Park with water several inches deep.
June 2015Funnel CloudOakland Park-A funnel cloud was reported by the weather observer at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport located about one mile to the southeast. The funnel began at 1036 AM EDT and dissipated at 1049 AM EDT.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOakland Park-A mesonet recorded a wind gust of 64 MPH. Power lines were downed in the area around Middle River Drive and NE 21 Street.
December 2005Funnel CloudOakland Park-Funnel clouds were reported in eastern Broward County. These funnel clouds were associated with a line of showers extending from Oakland Park to Davie. The showers were moving slowly east. No reports of funnel clouds touching down were received.
September 2002Funnel CloudOakland Park-A SKYWARN spotter sighted a funnel cloud.
March 2001HailOakland Park-Nickel-size hail was observed.
September 1998Funnel CloudOakland Park-Funnel cloud sighted near I-95 and Oakland Park Blvd.
July 1999HailOakland Park-no account filed

Every storm 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
Coral Woods0.4 miles18
Coral Heights0.5 miles18
Coral Estates0.8 miles18
North Andrew Gardens0.8 miles18
Wilton Manors0.9 miles18
Lloyds Estates0.9 miles18
Middle River Manor1.2 miles17
Coral Hills1.2 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 Oakland ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985183The 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 288013. 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.

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.

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.