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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Lake Worth Beach (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Lake Worth Beach. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Lake Worth Beach is located in Palm Beach County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

Below are the counties that are near Lake Worth Beach. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lake Worth Beach:

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Lake Worth Beach)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lake Worth Beach, with the one closest to Lake Worth Beach listed first.
    • Lake Clarke Shores
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Clarke Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Clarke Shores
      • Lake Clarke Shores is located in Palm Beach County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,619 people
    • Palm Springs
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Lantana
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • South Palm Beach
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Palm Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Palm Beach
      • South Palm Beach is located in Palm Beach County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,500 people
    • Atlantis
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Atlantis have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlantis
      • Atlantis is located in Palm Beach County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,127 people
    • Glen Ridge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glen Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Ridge
      • Glen Ridge is located in Palm Beach County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 246 people
    • Hypoluxo
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Manalapan
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hypoluxo Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hypoluxo Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hypoluxo Village
      • Hypoluxo Village is located in Palm Beach County
    • Seminole Manor
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seminole Manor have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seminole Manor
      • Seminole Manor is located in Palm Beach County
    • Greenacres City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenacres City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenacres City
      • Greenacres City is located in Palm Beach County
    • Hometown Lake Worth Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hometown Lake Worth Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hometown Lake Worth Village
      • Hometown Lake Worth Village is located in Palm Beach County
  • Broward County
  • Martin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lake Worth Beach, with the one closest to Lake Worth Beach listed first.
    • Jupiter Island
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jupiter Island have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter Island
      • Jupiter Island is located in Martin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 941 people
    • Hobe Sound
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lake Worth Beach, see our County-by-County Page for Lake Worth Beach.

Cemeteries Near Lake Worth Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lake Worth Beach.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lake Worth Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lake Worth Beach, with the one closest to Lake Worth Beach listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Lake Worth Beach in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lake Worth Beach.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Lake Worth Beach, with the one closest to Lake Worth Beach listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lake Worth Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lake Worth Beach.

Newspapers Published in Lake Worth Beach ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lake Worth Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lake Worth Beach, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lake Worth Beach.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Lake Worth Beach:

The official website for Lake Worth Beach: https://lakeworthbeachfl.gov/

The official website for Palm Beach County: www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: https://www.myflorida.com/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lake Worth Beach, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lake Worth Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lake Worth Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.6167, Longitude: -80.0652    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Mar 2025