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Palm Beach Lakes, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the West Palm Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33401. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach quadrangle.

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

Compare 1946 against another survey:

On record in Palm Beach Lakes

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Palm Beach Lakes between 1992 and 2015, burning about 564 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None 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
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning1

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
30 July 2003Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOKEECHOBEE COMMAND
23 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2003Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service47TH ST COMMAND
15 July 2004Natural300 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE WATER CATCHMENT FIRE
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
26 June 2015Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTYLER LAKE ( 50 )
20 June 2011Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJOG ROAD (50)
28 May 1999Natural75 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
West Palm Beach1.1 miles16
West Gate2.1 miles16
Palm Beach2.3 miles16
Military Park2.3 miles16
Mangonia Park2.4 miles14
Schall Circle2.4 miles16
Belvedere Homes2.5 miles16
Lakeside Green2.5 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122558126The 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 294365. 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.