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Belle Glade is a city on the southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee in the far western part of Palm Beach County.

Belle Glade is known as 'Muck City,' a nickname taken from the rich, black muck soil around the lake in which sugarcane thrives.

Belle Glade began as the Hillsboro settlement in the 1910s and 1920s; it was incorporated as a town on April 9, 1928, and became a city on September 11, 1945.

Belle Glade has been a center of farm research for a century - in 1921 the Florida legislature established an agricultural research station there to study how to grow crops on drained Everglades land.

Belle Glade was nearly wiped out just five months after it incorporated: on September 16, 1928, the great Okeechobee hurricane drove the lake over its banks and killed 611 people in Belle Glade alone.

Belle Glade sits in the heart of America's sugar country - about half of all the sugarcane grown in the United States is grown in the fields around Belle Glade and nearby Clewiston.

Belle Glade had a population of 16,698 at the 2020 census.

Belle Glade has about 5,607 households averaging 3.00 people each, and only about 43 percent of its homes are owner-occupied, meaning most residents rent.

Belle Glade is crossed by the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, the hiking and cycling path that circles Florida's largest lake.

Belle Glade's Glades Central Community High School is a football factory - in 2001 The New York Times reported that it had more players in the NFL, seven, than any other high school in the country, and the Raiders have won six state championships.