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| |  | | | South Bay is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is the westernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area. The population was 3,859 at the 2000 census. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 4,506. While the current estimates place South Bays population in the incorporated city limits at more than 4,000 people, surrounding areas increase the population figures to 54,000 people in a 25-mile (40 km) radius and more than 1.4 million in a 5... |
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| |  | | | WMEN 640 Sports (640 AM) is a sports talk radio station licensed to Royal Palm Beach, Florida, USA. The station primarily serves the West Palm Beach, Florida market and provides strong coverage of nearby Fort Lauderdale and Miami. 640 Sports is a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, carrying hourly sports updates along with weekend and overnight programming. The station is owned by Mark Jorgenson, through licensee ACM JCE IV B LLC, and operated by Palm Beach Broadcasting with studios in Pompano Beach. Un... |
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| |  | | | Miracle Park, also called Miracle Village, is a community outside of Pahokee, Florida that serves as a home for registered sex offenders. It was created by Richard Witherow, a minister working in prisons for 30 years, as an answer to sex offender registration laws that strictly limit where offenders may live. Such laws prohibit offenders from living within a certain distance of places where children gather, such as schools, parks, and places of worship. Within the limits of these rules, offender... |
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| |  | | | Twenty Mile Bend is an unofficial landmark located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located at the intersection of State Road 80 and State Road 880. This location is both 20 miles (32 km) from West Palm Beach, as well as 20 miles (32 km) from Lake Okeechobee. However, the name is derived from State Road 880. When traveling east from Belle Glade, there are bends in the road at the 9 miles (14 km), 12 miles (19 km), and 20 miles (32 km) points. This bend is located at the 20 mil... |
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| |  | Lakes of Florida, Everglades, Landforms of Palm Beach County, Florida, Landforms of Glades County, Florida, Landforms of Okeechobee County, Florida, Landforms of Hendry County, Florida, Landforms of Martin County, Florida, Lake Okeechobee, Hidden categories:, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from May 2013, Articles needing cleanup from June 2015, All articles needing cleanup, Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from June 2015, Wikipedia pages needi... | | Lake Okeechobee (US- o�ki�t�o�bi- ), locally referred to as The Lake, Floridas Inland Sea, or The Big O, is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida. It is the seventh largest freshwater lake in the United States and the second largest freshwater lake (the largest being Lake Michigan) contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states. However, it is the largest freshwater lake completely within a single one of the lower 48 states. Okeechobee covers 1,900 square kilometres (73... |
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| |  | | | Port Mayaca is a sparsely populated place located in western Martin County, Florida, United States, on the eastern side of Lake Okeechobee. Named for the Mayaca Tribe, Port Mayaca is centered just south of the Port Mayaca Lock and Dams on the Okeechobee Waterway (St. Lucie Canal) at the intersection of S.W. Kanner Highway, (State Road 76), and S.W. Gaines Highway, (State Road 15, which is signed as U.S. Route 441 and U.S. Route 98). There are a few houses and businesses at this intersection but ... |
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| |  | | | Wellington is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of 2014, the city had a population of 61,485 according to the U.S. Census Bureau, making it the most populous village in the state. It is the fifth largest municipality in Palm Beach County by population. Wellington is part of the South Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Wellington was named Money Magazines Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2010. Although Wellington is not a village under any standard definition of the term v... |
| |  | | | The Barley Barber Swamp, once a vast Bald Cypress forest and waterway in the Greater Everglades watershed, is a 450-acre (180 ha) parcel of land surrounded by Florida Power & Lights (FPL) Martin County power plant. The swamp is located just over a mile east of Lake Okeechobee and due west of Indiantown, Florida. The old-growth cypress swamp is named after Barley Barber, a man who lived in the area at the turn of the 20th century. Little is known of the man Barley Barber except that he left the r... |
| |  | Unincorporated communities in Palm Beach County, Florida, Unincorporated communities in Florida, Census-designated places in Florida, Hidden categories:, Articles needing additional references from December 2009, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing cleanup from December 2009, All articles needing cleanup, Cleanup tagged articles without a reason field from December 2009, Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from December 2009, Coordinates on Wikidata, Vague or ambiguous time ... | | The Acreage is an unincorporated community located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, with a 2010 US Census Bureau population count of 38,704 . It is located in the areas north of Royal Palm Beach and Loxahatchee Groves, and is approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of West Palm Beach. Most of the population lives in single family homes on 1.14 acres (4,600 m2) and larger lots. It straddles the western fringes of the highly developed eastern portion of Palm Beach County and the agri... |
| |  | | | WFLX (Fox 29) is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. Licensed to West Palm Beach, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 (virtual channel 29) from a transmitter in Lake Worth west of US 441- SR 7. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 434. The stations broadcast license is owned by Raycom Media, but is operated by the E. W. Scripps Company through a share... |
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| |  | | | The Riddle House is an old Edwardian house located in Palm Beach County, Florida. The house was built in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1905 by some of Henry Flaglers hotel construction workers. Originally serving as a funeral parlor (then known as Gatekeepers Cottage), the Riddle House was also a house to the overseers of Woodlawn Cemetery, who would deter grave robbery. By 1920, the house became privately owned by Karl Riddle, a city manager and superintendent of West Palm Beach. He is the namesa... |
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| |  | | | Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center is the solar parabolic-trough component of an integrated solar combined cycle 1150 MW plant, in western Martin County, Florida, just north of Indiantown, built by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL). The ISCC plant is part of Martin Plant site which consists of 5 units. Unit 1 & Unit 2 are 800 MW steam electric generating units that use natural gas and low-sulfur residual oil. Unit 3 & Unit 4 are 500 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle units. Unit 8 is ... |
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| |  | | | WPTV-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for South Floridas Gold and Treasure Coasts. Licensed to West Palm Beach, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (PSIP virtual channel 5) from a transmitter in Lake Worth along U.S. 441- SR 7. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 3 (in Martin, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, and Southern St. Lucie Counties) and channel 5 (in Indian River and Northern St. Lucie Counties). Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, WPTV has stu... |
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| |  | | | The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) West Palm Beach Field Office replaced a hodge podge of USCIS offices mainly located in nearby West Palm Beach, Florida. The new center was officially opened August 13, 2009. The new Field Office (actually in Royal Palm Beach) is located on the south side of Belvedere Road amongst a variety of office and commercial buildings. It has free parking, something that some of the previous buildings in West Palm Beach did not have. Directly s... |
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| |  | | | The Big Cypress Indian Reservation is one of the six reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is located in southeastern Hendry County and northwestern Broward County, in southern Florida in the United States. The reservation lies south of Lake Okeechobee and just north of Alligator Alley. It is governed by the Seminole Tribe of Floridas Tribal Council, and is the largest of the five Seminole reservations in the state. Facilities on the reservation include the tribal museum and a major ... |
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| |  | | | Berean Christian School is a private school in West Palm Beach, Florida. Berean Christian School is a ministry of Grace Fellowship, a local independent church. It was established in 1964. Berean Christian School also has numerous amounts of sports such as volleyball, swimming, cross-country, track, soccer, girls basketball, boys basketball, cheerleading, and most of all football. Their home mascot is the bulldog and they refer to themselves as home of the dawgz. The grades range from preschool t... |
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| |  | | | The February�March 2007 tornado outbreak sequence was a deadly tornado outbreak across the southern United States that began in Kansas on February 28, 2007. The severe weather spread eastward on March 1 and left a deadly mark across the southern US, particularly in Alabama and Georgia. Twenty deaths were reported; one in Missouri, nine in Georgia, and 10 in Alabama. Scattered severe weather was also reported in North Carolina on March 2, producing the final tornado of the outbreak before the s... |
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| |  | | | Green Cay Wetlands (or Green Cay Wetlands and Nature Center) is a nature preserve located in Boynton Beach, Florida. The 100-acre (0.40 km2) property was purchased in 1999 from Ted and Trudy Winsberg, who used the property for farming. The Winsbergs sold the property for 1- 3 of its appraised value with the condition that it would be made into a wetland. Construction began in July 2003. It was created jointly by the Palm Beach County Utilities Department and the Palm Beach County Parks and Recre... |