South Palm Beach, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lake Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33480. It lies near Hypoluxo Island. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. 1,471 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1945 to 1987The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1945 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Palm Beach grew from 1,171 to 1,471 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,171 | |
| 2020 | 1,471 | +300 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1945 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of South Palm Beach between 2000 and 2008, burning about 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | MINOR ROAD FIRE |
| 26 May 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 May 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CONGRESS COMMAND |
| 19 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.2 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Palm Beach in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | South Palm Beach | - | A waterspout moved onshore and was caught on video with minor roof damage and broken windows reported in the vicinity of La Coquille Villas along with downed trees on both sides of Highway A1A. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lantana | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Manalapan | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hypoluxo | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Worth Beach | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hypoluxo Village | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Seminole Manor | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Atlantis | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Ocean Ridge | 4.3 miles | 14 |
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 South Palm Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2152234 | The 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 291401. 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.







