1894Government
Organized in 1894 and officially established in 1897, the LWPA is a historical society that has compiled biographies, stories, and photographs of people who settled in the Lake ...
1922Government
== History ==
Residents of Lake Worth (now the city of Lake Worth Beach) proposed to town commissioners in May 1922 that a municipal country club and golf course be constructed ...
1926Government
Instead, Lake Worth's municipal golf course opened along the Intracoastal Waterway in November 1926.
1927History
Boutwell operated a dairy farm on 5 acres (2.0 ha) of land in modern-day Palm Springs beginning in 1927, which expanded to about 700 acres (280 ha) prior to his retirement in 1956.
1956History
He retired in 1956, while his family sold the remaining farmland and livestock by 1965.
1957Government
One year later, the Florida Legislature approved a charter establishing the village of Palm Springs as Palm Beach County's 30th municipality on May 31, 1957.
1958Architecture
By August 1958, about 800 homes had been built.
1959Education
Within two years, around 800 homes had been built, and four schools were constructed in or near Palm Springs between 1959 and 1970.
1960History
The first village hall was erected in 1960.
1962Architecture
A 1962 profile in The Palm Beach Post reported that the village had 38 paved roads, while about 1,300 building permits had been approved over the past five years.
1966Architecture
The village government purchased the water plant from the F&F Construction Company in 1966 and later implemented significant improvements to it in 1976 and 1978.
1976Government
Guerty was elected to the village council and lobbied for the construction of a library building, using funds from a capital improvements bond issue approved in 1976.
1978History
On November 11, 1978, the Jeanette J.
1997History
However, in 1997, the village council adopted a plan for expanding Palm Springs.
1998Government
Palm Springs has been expanding through annexation since 1998, more than doubling the village's land area and population within a few decades.
1999Government
Also in the late 1990s, the village council began planning to renovate the original municipal complex after residents approved a bond referendum in 1999.
2000Infrastructure
The United States Census Bureau reported in 2000 that Palm Springs had a total area of 1.65 square miles (4.3 km2), of which 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) was land and 0.05 square ...
2001History
Since at least 2001, the Lake Worth Pioneers Association (LWPA) has been based in Palm Springs.
2003Architecture
Consequently, a new village hall opened in July 2003 – a two-story, 24,000 sq ft (2,200 m2) structure, approximately thrice as large as the original village hall.
2004Architecture
Thereafter, the newly expanded library and public safety building opened in 2004 and 2005, respectively.
2005Disaster
Also in 2005, Hurricane Wilma destroyed 5 homes and damaged 2,462 others to some extent in Palm Springs, including substantial impact to 460 multi-family residences, more than i...
2007Government
In 2007, Palm Springs observed its 50th anniversary of incorporation alongside Independence Day celebrations.
2010Government
By 2010, Palm Springs became the first municipality in Palm Beach County in which a majority of its residents are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.
2017Culture
Palm Springs is part of Florida's 21st congressional district, which has been represented by Lois Frankel (D) since 2017.
2018History
Although 55.1% of residents of the village worked within 10 miles (16 km) of home, only 8.5% of residents worked in Palm Springs as of 2018.
2019Economy
As of December 31, 2019, FPL serves approximately 5 million customers throughout Florida, equivalent to about 10 million people.
2020History
Palm Springs is also located within the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida, which had a population of approximately 6,138,333 people as of 2020.
2021Culture
As of November 2021, a total of 91,643 items are circulated by the library, including 48,071 volumes.