Lantana, Florida Town of Lantana Lantana and South Palm Beach Lantana and South Palm Beach Flag of Town of Lantana Flag Official seal of Town of Lantana Location of Lantana in Palm Beach County Location of Lantana in Palm Beach County Lantana is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 10,423 at the 2010 United States Census. As postmaster, Lyman titled the postal service Lantana Point for the wild Lantana plants that interval in abundance in the area.
One of the other Lyman businesses was the Lantana Fish Company.
The Town of Lantana was incorporated in 1921 with 22 inhabitants voting in the first election.
At the time of incorporation, the region of Lantana was one square mile with a populace of 100 residents. After World War II, Lantana, like the rest of South Florida experienced a tremendous building boom which continues to this day.
Interstate 95, which was instead of through Lantana in the mid-1970s, brought a surge of commercial evolution to the town.
Every year, a huge tree would be shipped from the Pacific Northwest to Lantana by rail to the grounds of the National Enquirer, adjoining to the Florida East Coast Railway tracks.
Today, Lantana covers 2.25 square miles (5.8 km2) and boasts a year-round populace of about 10,000 residents.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) is territory and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) (21.31%) is water.
As of 2000, English as a first language accounted for 73.24% of all residents, while Spanish was found to be the first language of 13.95%, French Creole made up 6.82%, and Finnish was the mother tongue of 5.01% of the populace (the highest percentage in Florida.) Also, French was spoken by 0.62% of inhabitants and German was spoken by 0.34% of the populace. As of 2000, Lantana had the 111th highest percentage of Finns in the US, which accounted for 5.4% of all inhabitants (tied with two US areas in Michigan,) while Haitians had the thirty-fifth highest percentage, with 5.20% of the population.
Lantana was the publishing command posts of the National Enquirer tabloid journal amid the 1970s and much of the 1980s.
"Lantana (town), Florida".
"Historical knowledge from Town of Lantana official site".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"MLA Data Center Results for Lantana, Florida".
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