Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Jupiter, FL

Jupiter got its name by accident — mapmakers misunderstood the Spanish spelling "Jobe" of the Indigenous Hobe people's name as "Jove", and later mapmakers turned that into Jupiter, after the Roman god.

Jupiter was incorporated on February 9, 1925, and is the northernmost town in Palm Beach County, at the mouth of the Loxahatchee River.

The brick Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, completed in 1860, is the town's symbol — it was painted red in 1910 to cover discoloration from the humid climate, and Hurricane Jeanne sandblasted paint off its upper tower in 2004.

Jupiter's coastline sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean further than any other point on the Florida coast, which is why ships have treated it as a landmark stop since the 1500s.

The Battles of the Loxahatchee were fought near present-day Jupiter in 1838 during the Seminole Wars.

Jupiter had a population of 61,047 at the 2020 census, up from just 176 residents in 1930.

Jupiter had 25,816 households at the 2020 census, and roughly half of them were married-couple households.

Jupiter has a tropical rainforest climate — warm to hot nearly all year, with frost extremely rare and brief daily thundershowers common in the summer wet season.

Coastal Living named Jupiter the 9th Happiest Seaside Town in the United States in 2012.

Jupiter is a spring training baseball town — the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals share the Roger Dean Stadium complex in Abacoa, which also hosts their minor league affiliates, the Jupiter Hammerheads and Palm Beach Cardinals.