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Pahokee, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33476. It lies near Padgett Island. The Survey maps it on the Pahokee quadrangle. 5,524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Pahokee 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 Pahokee, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Pahokee, surveyed 1956

On record in Pahokee

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

Pahokee fell from 5,649 to 5,524 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
20105,649
20205,524-125 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pahokee between 1992 and 2012, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 maintenance9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROADSIDE ( 50 )
5 June 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service842
24 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGLADES FIRE
27 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOWER PLANT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pahokee in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 6 tornado, 3 funnel cloud, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 9 injuries. 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 1996LightningPahokee9 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPahokee$10,000Two large trees fell on a home in Pahokee.
April 2000Tornado (F0)Pahokee$1,000A pilot reported a tornado touching down briefly and damaging a utility pole.
March 2018Tornado (EF0)Pahokee-A trained spotter reported a tornado approximately 3 miles southeast of Pahokee. The tornado was rain-wrapped and nearly stationary. The tornado remained over an open field with no damage reported.
August 2015Tornado (EF0)Pahokee-Video obtained of a tornado in an open field just south of Pahokee. The tornado was believed to have crossed SR 715 and Bacom Point with no damage reported.
September 2015Funnel CloudPahokee-A pilot reported a funnel cloud 3 miles southeast of Pahokee.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindPahokee-Law enforcement officials reported a downed palm tree in Pahokee.
June 2008HailPahokee-A severe thunderstorm passed over Pahokee producing nickel size hail.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindPahokee-Pahokee police reported downed power lines along Hoover Dike west of Pahokee on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee. A South Florida Water Management observation platform recorded a wind gust to 44 knots...51 mph...at 345 PM EST.
August 2003Tornado (F0)Pahokee-A weak tornado briefly touched down but did no known damage.
July 2000Funnel CloudPahokee-A funnel cloud was sighted.
August 1998Funnel CloudPahokee-Funnel cloud sighted near SR-715.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Pahokee-observed over sugar cane field east of highway 715.
July 1997WaterspoutPahokee-waterspout observed about 10 nm n of pahokee.
August 1993Tornado (F0)Pahokee-A tornado touched down briefly in a sugar cane field causing no damage.
June 2009HailPahokee-no account filed

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
Padgett Island0.7 miles10
Fremd Village1.2 miles10
Pelican Lake3.0 miles10
Canal Point3.2 miles10
Bryant3.3 miles10
Cardwell3.7 miles10
Runyon6.0 miles12
Sand Cut7.0 miles10

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 PahokeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152074The 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 288376. 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.