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Palm Springs, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lake Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33461. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach quadrangle. 26,890 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Palm Springs 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 Springs, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Palm Springs, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Palm Springs grew from 18,928 to 26,890 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
201018,928
202026,890+7,962 (+42%)

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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Palm Springs between 1992 and 2017, burning about 318 acres in total. 6 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
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service836
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
6 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST HILL COMMAND
23 May 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINEHURST 2 (50)
23 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined52 acresFlorida Forest Service741
22 May 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCONGRESS COMMAND
18 May 1999Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Palm Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lantan Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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 Clarke Shores1.3 miles16
Greenacres City1.8 miles14
Hometown Lake Worth Village2.2 miles14
Lake Worth Beach2.5 miles14
Glen Ridge2.6 miles16
Gun Club Estates2.8 miles16
Cloud Lake3.0 miles16
Atlantis3.1 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 Palm SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986304The 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 293892. 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.

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.