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Palm Springs is a village in Palm Beach County, Florida - not to be confused with its famous California namesake, from which its name was likely derived - and its motto is 'Garden Spot of Palm Beach County'.

Palm Springs was chartered on May 31, 1957 as Palm Beach County's 30th municipality, on land that had been William A. Boutwell's dairy farm, one of the largest in Florida with more than 1,000 Guernsey cattle.

At the moment of incorporation, Palm Springs consisted only of farmland and a dairy barn with no permanent residents at all - and the village government first did business out of that remodeled dairy barn.

Boutwell, the dairy farmer whose land became Palm Springs, is credited with inventing half-and-half creamer.

Growth was explosive - about 800 homes were built within the village's first two years, and four schools opened in or near Palm Springs between 1959 and 1970.

Palm Springs was the fastest-growing municipality in Palm Beach County between 2010 and 2020, its population jumping about 42% from 18,928 to 26,890, in roughly 9,818 households.

Palm Springs is the only municipality in Palm Beach County with a Hispanic or Latino majority - about 60% of residents in 2020 - and it was the first in the county to pass that mark, by 2010.

Through annexations since 1998, Palm Springs has more than doubled its land area, from 1.65 square miles in 2000 to 4.25 square miles in 2020.

Palm Springs hosts the Fulton-Holland Educational Services Center, the headquarters of the School District of Palm Beach County, one of the largest school districts in the United States.

Hurricane Wilma hit Palm Springs hard in 2005, destroying 5 homes and damaging 2,462 others - including more multi-family residences than in any other Palm Beach County municipality.