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The Acreage, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Western Community census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33470. The Survey maps it on the West of Delta quadrangle. 41,654 people lived here at the 2020 count.

The Acreage within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of The Acreage, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of The Acreage, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

The Acreage grew from 38,704 to 41,654 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
201038,704
202041,654+2,950 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of The Acreage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,928 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 11 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
Natural74
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
24 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance4.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2004Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service218
6 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2001Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1996Natural4.0 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 The Acreage: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ortona Mine SouthSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Westlake3.2 miles12
Delta5.0 miles16
Royal Palm Beach6.2 miles14
Palm Beach Gardens7.1 miles16
Loxahatchee Groves7.6 miles11
Gramercy Park8.1 miles14
Golden Lakes8.4 miles14
Palm Lake Estates South8.8 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 The AcreageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7712274The 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 2650192. 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.