Palm Coast, Florida Palm Coast, Florida Location in Flagler County and the state of Florida Location in Flagler County and the state of Florida Palm Coast, Florida is positioned in the US Palm Coast, Florida - Palm Coast, Florida Location in Flagler County and the state of Florida Palm Coast is a town/city in Flagler County, Florida, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was 75,180, more than twice the 32,832 counted in 2000.
The populace was estimated to be 80,600 in 2014. It is the most crowded city in Flagler County.
Palm Coast is part of the Deltona Daytona Beach Ormond Beach, FL urbane statistical area.
In 1975, the Flagler County Board of County Commissioners established Palm Coast Service District, which encompassed almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha).
Florida had its first serious "wildland urban interface" fire in 1985 with the Palm Coast Fire, which burned 131 homes.
Thirteen years later, fires hit the same Palm Coast subdivision.
Fire suppression organizations responded from 44 states, and Florida hosted the biggest aerial suppression operation ever conducted in the United States.
On December 31, 1999, the City of Palm Coast was officially incorporated.
On October 1, 2000, all services were officially transferred from the former Service District to the town/city of Palm Coast.
The town/city hired its first town/city manager on April 17, 2000.
The town/city provides a wide range of services including evolution services, fire services, street assembly and maintenance, parks and recreational activities.
Palm Coast contracts with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services.
As of 2012, the town/city has plans under way for a new town/city hall, a town center, new fire stations, and additional lands for parks.
On March 2, 2017, Michelle Taylor, a 16-year-old student of Matanzas High School in the city, died in an region with very several street lights. The following morning, the citizens of the town/city petitioned to have more street lights installed throughout the entire town/city to reduce the number of deaths from hit and run from no street lights.
Palm Coast is positioned in northeastern Flagler County at 29 32 17 N 81 13 24 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 90.8 square miles (235.3 km2), of which 89.9 square miles (232.8 km2) is territory and 0.97 square miles (2.5 km2), or 1.06%, is water. The town/city extends north to the Flagler County line, southwest to the Bunnell town/city limits, and southeast to touch the town/city of Flagler Beach.
Interstate 95 crosses Palm Coast from north to south, with access from Exit 293 (Matanzas Woods Parkway), Exit 289 (Palm Coast Parkway), and Exit 284 (Florida State Road 100).
Route 1 runs alongside to I-95 through the side of Palm Coast, dominant into Bunnell.
The region around Palm Coast last saw a direct hit from a tropical cyclone in 2004 when Hurricane Charley passed directly over the area. Since 1851 when hurricane tracking data began, 33 hurricanes and tropical storms have directly affected the area.
Flagler County has had one of the highest rates of populace growth in the United States since 1990, as stated to the U.S.
2010 Enumeration Palm Coast Flagler County Florida In 2000, the city's populace was spread out with 18.5% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 19.7% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 30.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
"Florida by place Population, Housing Units, Area and Density:2000".
Elevation at coordinates given in "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), Palm Coast city, Florida".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), Palm Coast city, Florida".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
Modern Language Association Data Center Results of Palm Coast, Florida.
City of Palm Coast official website Municipalities and communities of Flagler County, Florida, United States Bunnell Flagler Beach Palm Coast This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Palm Coast, Florida - Populated places on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida - Cities in Flagler County, Florida - Planned metros/cities in the United States - Populated places established in 1969 - Cities in Florida - Former census-designated places in Florida - Planned communities in Florida
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