BlockBefore

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.

South Palm Beach within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1945 to 1987

The 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.

Topographic sheet of South Palm Beach, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of South Palm Beach, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

South 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,171
20201,471+300 (+26%)

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

4 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
3 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMINOR ROAD FIRE
26 May 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 May 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCONGRESS COMMAND
19 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.2 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Tornado (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.

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
Lantana0.7 miles14
Manalapan1.4 miles14
Hypoluxo1.7 miles14
Lake Worth Beach2.1 miles14
Hypoluxo Village3.0 miles14
Seminole Manor3.3 miles14
Atlantis3.3 miles14
Ocean Ridge4.3 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 South Palm BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152234The 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.