Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Lake Park, FL

Lake Park was incorporated in 1923 as the Town of Kelsey City, named for Boston entrepreneur Harry Seymour Kelsey, who had purchased some 30,000 acres north of West Palm Beach.

The town was renamed Lake Park in 1939, and it holds the distinction of being the first zoned municipality in the State of Florida.

Lake Park was planned and designed by Dr. John Nolen and the Olmsted Brothers, the landscape architecture firm founded by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Lake Park Town Hall, built in 1927 and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, survived the devastating 1928 Okeechobee hurricane and served as a shelter for town residents during the storm.

Lake Park had 9,047 residents in the 2020 census, up from 8,155 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 3,456 households in Lake Park.

In the 2000 census, Lake Park had the sixth-highest percentage of Haitian residents of any place in the United States, at 14.5% of the population, and French Creole was the first language of about 13% of residents.

Lake Park's population exploded during the 1950s, jumping from 489 residents in 1950 to 3,589 in 1960, an increase of more than 630% in a single decade.

Lake Park's eastern side borders the Intracoastal Waterway with views across to Singer Island, and the town includes the historic Kelsey Park.

The Lake Park Public Library was founded by the Lake Park Woman's Club in 1962 and began on the second floor of Town Hall before moving to its own building on Park Avenue in 1969.