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History · Lake Harbor

Lake Harbor’s post office opened in 1931

Below: 12 old photos and papers, maps from 1970 on, and the census since 2000.

1931first post office
0on the National Register
12old photos & papers
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From Lake Harbor’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Lake Harbor began

When was Lake Harbor founded?

1931

The Lake Harbor post office opened in 1931, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 195 in 20002020 census: 4995 years
Founding year: the first Lake Harbor post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lake Harbor’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A town in old photos12 old photos, postcards and papers.
★ What stands out · By decade

Lake Harbor, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s12 items
Loading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Florida1939Loading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, FloridaMigrant agricultural worker coming home. Lake Harbor, Florida1939Migrant agricultural worker coming home. Lake Harbor,…Migrant laborers cutting cabbages near Lake Harbor in Lake Okeechobee region, Florida1939Migrant laborers cutting cabbages near Lake Harbor in…Migrant Negro agricultural workers quarters1939Migrant Negro agricultural workers quartersNegro migrant agricultural workers quarters1939Negro migrant agricultural workers quartersCutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbo…Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbo…Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Cutting cabbages; some migrant labor. Near Lake Harbo…Migrant vegetable pickers living quarters near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Migrant vegetable pickers living quarters near Lake H…Migratory packinghouse workers living quarters near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Migratory packinghouse workers living quarters near L…Migratory packinghouse workers living quarters near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Migratory packinghouse workers living quarters near L…Migrant vegetable picker's living quarters near Lake Harbor, Florida1939Migrant vegetable picker's living quarters near Lake …
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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The story so far

Lake Harbor, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lake Harbor yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Lake Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida despite being physically and culturally closer to the Florida Heartland. The population was 49 at the 2020 US census.

Its first post office opened in 1931. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 45 to 49 (+9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Lake Harbor, 1931 to 1970

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1931Post officeThe Lake Harbor post office opens
  3. 1939In the archiveLoading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Florida
  4. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
On the map

Lake Harbor on the map, 1970 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lake Harbor. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Lake Harbor on the 1970 USGS mapLake Harbor on the 1985 USGS map1970Lake Harbor sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lake Harbor.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Loading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Florida
Retake this viewLoading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Florida, 1939

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Lake Harbor’s page.

Retake this view · +15
People over time

Lake Harbor, census by census

010020020002020Peak: 195

Between 45 and 195 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Lake Harbor’s Wikipedia page.

Help out

Finish Lake Harbor’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewLoading bean pickers. Lake Harbor, Flor…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Lake Harbor’s history

What year was Lake Harbor founded?

The Lake Harbor post office opened in 1931, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the Library of Congress (12), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.