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Royal Palm Estates, Florida

14 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 33415. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach Farms quadrangle. 1,974 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Royal Palm Estates 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 Royal Palm Estates, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Royal Palm Estates, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Royal Palm Estates fell from 3,583 to 1,974 between 2000 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
20003,583
20103,025-558 (-16%)
20201,974-1,051 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Royal Palm Estates between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,388 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
23 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2000Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service836
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
20 June 2011Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJOG ROAD (50)

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 Royal Palm Estates: 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
Okeechobee 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
West Palm Beach Farms0.3 miles14
Lake Belvedere Estates0.7 miles14
Haverhill0.7 miles16
Golfview0.8 miles16
Gun Club Estates1.0 miles16
Stacey Street1.2 miles16
Palm Beach Farms1.6 miles14
Belvedere Homes1.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Royal Palm EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2253269The 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 1853283. 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.