Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 15861
Land area (2000): 5.643372 sq. miles (14.616267 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.820487 sq. miles (2.125052 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.463859 sq. miles (16.741319 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39075
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 26.619695 N, 80.058742 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33460 33461 33467
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lake Worth
Housing Units (2000): 1751
Land area (2000): 2.521778 sq. miles (6.531374 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.521778 sq. miles (6.531374 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41056
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.810916 N, 97.432577 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lake Worth
Wikipedia
Lake Worth is the name of several places in the United States:
- Lake Worth, Florida, a city
- Lake Worth Lagoon, a lagoon in Florida
- Lake Worth, Texas, a town in Texas
- Lake Worth (Texas), a lake in Texas
It may also refer to:
- Lake Worth Open, a former golf tournament
- Wörthsee, a glacial lake in the Starnberg district of Bavaria, Germany
- Wörthersee, an alpine lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia
Lake Worth is located on the West Fork of the Trinity River. It is entirely inside the Fort Worth, Texas city limits.
Lake Worth is a reservoir in Texas. It was built in 1914 as a reservoir and for recreation. The lake is controlled by the City of Fort Worth Lake Worth Management Office. The lake has a moderate fluctuation with stained clarity. Submerged vegetation is sparse. There are shallow flats covered with cattails and other emergent species.
When first impounded, Lake Worth provided boating and recreation that drew people from throughout the North Texas area. Over time, the lake became more neglected, but the expansion of Fort Worth has recently brought the lake and its parks new popularity.
Since the early 1960s, many calls were made for dredging the lake and restoring its recreational potential, but city leaders were either unwilling or unable to fund the expensive proposition. This funding problem ended in the mid-2000s, when it became technologically feasible to access natural gas of the Barnett Shale, which partially lies underneath the lake.
A movement of Fort Worth citizens has pushed for retaining a portion of that gas revenue windfall for renovating and developing its public recreational potential. This movement proposes to make improvements such as dredging the lake, setting aside of additional city-owned land as green space, building trails and other recreational infrastructure, and integrating the overall area into a "world-class" park such as New York's Central Park (the city currently operates a park on the lake's northern end as the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge).
Usage examples of "lake worth".
The Florida cockfighting season didn't start officially until Thanksgiving Day, when an opening derby was held in Lake Worth.
The subdivision was six miles west of the Atlantic Ocean and the Lake Worth waterway.
Couple of weeks ago there was a story in the paper, how the cops pulled a sting on a guy who was buying TEC-9s in Martin County, no waiting, and selling them to drug dealers in West Palm, Lake Worth, all convicted felons.
Palm Beach is set on a narrow tongue of land between the Atlantic, to the east, and Lake Worth, to the west.
In overlooking the bright blue water of Lake Worth, the mansion did not have a view of the Atlantic, but it also lacked the flocks of tourists and curiosity seekers that drove by the glitzy areas in an almost unending stream.
I took the Lake Worth bridge to pick up A1A, to enter Palm Beach from the southern end of the island, and Berenice shifted suddenly in her seat.
She was the one who stood at the bow in white shorts and a red top, and had looked out across Lake Worth with almost the same soft, brooding, dreamy, inward expression.