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Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach, Florida
City
City of Pompano Beach
Pompano Beach's nighttime skyline viewed from Briny Avenue
Pompano Beach's nighttime skyline viewed from Briny Avenue
Flag of Pompano Beach, Florida
Flag
Official seal of Pompano Beach, Florida
Seal
Official logo of Pompano Beach, Florida
Wordmark
Motto: "Florida's Warmest Welcome"
Location of Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida
Location of Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida
Coordinates: 26°14′5″N 80°7′32″W / 26.23472°N 80.12556°W / 26.23472; -80.12556Coordinates: 26°14′5″N 80°7′32″W / 26.23472°N 80.12556°W / 26.23472; -80.12556
Country  United States of America
State  Florida
County Logo of Broward County, Florida.svg Broward
Settled (Pompano Settlement) Circa Mid-1880's-1896
Incorporated (Town of Pompano) July 3, 1908
Incorporated (City of Pompano Beach) June 6, 1947
Government
 • Type Commission-Manager
 • Mayor Lamar Fisher
 • Vice Mayor Charlotte Burrie
 • Commissioners Barry Dockswell, Rex Hardin, Ed Phillips, and Barry Moss
 • City Manager Dennis Beach
 • City Clerk Asceleta Hammond
Area
 • City 25.4 sq mi (65.8 km2)
 • Land 24.0 sq mi (62.2 km2)
 • Water 1.4 sq mi (3.6 km2)  5.54%
Elevation 13 ft (4 m)
Population (2010)
 • City 99,845
 • Density 4,159.8/sq mi (1,606.1/km2)
 • Metro 5,564,635
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 33060-33077, 33093, 33097
Area code(s) 754, 954
FIPS code 12-58050
GNIS feature ID 0289162
Website www.pompanobeachfl.gov

Pompano Beach /ˌpɒmpən ˈb/ is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2010 census the city's population was 99,845, with an estimated population of 102,984 as of 2012. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.

Pompano Beach is currently in the middle of a redevelopment process to revitalize its beachfront and historic downtown. The city has also been listed as one of the top real estate markets, being featured in CNN, Money and the Wall Street Journal as one of the country's top vacation home markets. Pompano Beach Airpark, located within the city, is the home of the Goodyear Blimp Spirit of Innovation.

Its name is derived from the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast.

There had been scattered settlers in the area from at least the mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheene and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. The first train arrived in the small Pompano settlement on February 22, 1896. It is said that Sheene gave the community its name after jotting down on his survey of the area the name of the fish he had for dinner. The coming of the railroad led to development farther west from the coast. In 1906 Pompano became the southernmost settlement in newly created Palm Beach County. That year, the Hillsboro Lighthouse was completed on the beach.


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