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Tequesta Indians lived in the area. [12]The city's name is derived from the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast. [13]There had been scattered settlers in the area since at least the mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheen and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. [3]
Atlantic Boulevard, consisting mostly of State Road 814 (SR 814), is a major commercial and commuter highway in northern Broward County, Florida.The 13-mile-long (21 km) divided highway extends from the Sawgrass Expressway in Coral Springs to State Road A1A in Pompano Beach.
Pompano Beach is a Tri-Rail commuter rail station in Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. With 109,000 passengers in the first six months of 2011, it is the 10th-busiest Tri-Rail station. [ 1 ] In 2015, the station had about 800 weekday riders.
The segment of road located in Pompano Beach is maintained by the city as of 2016, and is not part of the state highway system. [7] While the SR 811 designation ends at Hillsboro Boulevard, a short signed segment of CR 811 continues north for 0.4 miles (0.64 km) to a bridge over the Hillsboro Canal, which separates Palm Beach and Broward counties.
It then crosses the South Florida Rail Corridor (Tri-Rail line) just north of Cypress Creek station before coming to an intersection with Andrews Avenue . CR 840 then has an interchange with Interstate 95 before terminating at Dixie Highway (SR 811) between Oakland Park and Pompano Beach. [16]
South Florida Chamber Maps is a Broward County, Florida print and digital map company. Started in 2011, the company first printed humorous cartoon style maps that showed fun, local things to do in specific Broward County towns and cities including Weston, Coral Springs, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea and Deerfield Beach. [1]
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main Interstate Highway of Florida's Atlantic Coast.It begins at a partial interchange with US Highway 1 (US 1) just south of downtown Miami and heads north through Jacksonville, and to the Georgia state line at the St. Marys River near Becker.
Pompano Beach Service Plaza and Operations Center: Coconut Creek–Pompano Beach city line: 66.432: 106.912 — 66: SR 814 (Atlantic Boulevard) Northbound exit and southbound entrance; opened 1994: 67.577: 108.755: 24: 67: Coconut Creek Parkway (CR 912 west) / M.L. King Boulevard – Broward Community College