| LC control no. | n 83205219 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Lake Worth (Fla.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Florida--Lake Worth |
| Variant(s) | City of Lake Worth (Fla.) Lake Worth, Fla. |
| See also | Predecessor: Lucerne (Fla.) Successor: Lake Worth Beach (Fla.) |
| Beginning date | 1912-10 |
| Ending date | 2019-03-12 |
| Found in | Official zoning map, City of Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida, 1981 (subj.) map recto (City of Lake Worth, Palm Beach Co., Fla.) LC data base, 6-15-83 (hdg.: Lake Worth, Fla.) Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1982 (Lake Worth, in Palm Beach Co.; inc.) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 26⁰36ʹ57ʺN 080⁰03ʹ25ʺW) AA Roads (website), viewed 12 April, 2022: Interstate 95 North - Boca Raton to Lake Worth Beach (Lake Worth ... was founded in 1911 as "Jewel," was renamed as "Lucerne," and finally became Lake Worth in October 1912) <https://www.aaroads.com/guides/i-095-north-lake-worth-fl/> ernstmaissen.ch, viewed 12 April, 2022: Lake Worth (The name Jewel was changed to the Townsite of Lucerne and the platting began; In October [of 1912], the City's name changed from Lucerne to Lake Worth after post office representatives learned there was already a town in Florida called Lucerne) <https://www.ernstmaissen.ch/markett/john_a04.htm> Palm Beach Post, May 4, 2019, viewed 12 April, 2022: Postal puzzle: So did Lake Worth Beach really erase Lake Worth? Sort of... but not really (On March 12, 1,402 Lake Worth voters changed the name of Lake Worth to Lake Worth Beach) <https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190504/postal-puzzle-so-did-lake-worth-beach-really-erase-lake-worth-sort-of-but-not-really> Lake Worth Herald, 107th year, no. 11 (March 14, 2019), viewed 12 April, 2022: page [1] (Lake Worth voters ... decided to change the name of the city; will be known as the City of Lake Worth Beach) <https://1985.newstogo.us/editionviewer/default.aspx?Edition=1592d41e-f4a9-4264-ba9e-18fa85406a1f> Wikipedia, viewed 12 April, 2022: Lake Worth Beach, Florida (Lake Worth Beach, previously named Lake Worth, is a city in east-central Palm Beach County, Florida; The initial name of the area's first post office was Jewell (sometimes spelled Jewel); proposed to name the town Lucerne, but the United States Postal Service refused to accept the name because there already was a Lucerne post office ... changed the new town's name to Lake Worth; Lake Worth Beach was incorporated as the "town of Lake Worth" on June 14, 1913; A ballot initiative to change the name of the city to Lake Worth Beach in 2019 passed by a narrow margin) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Worth_Beach,_Florida> |
| Geographic area code | n-us-fl |
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