Lake Park is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

[1][2] It was originally named after Boston entrepreneur Harry Seymour Kelsey, after he purchased 30,000 acres (12,140.57 hectares) north of West Palm Beach.

[1] Since then, the boundaries of Lake Park have expanded to 2.35 square miles (6.1 km2) of residential, business, industrial and mixed-use land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 9,047 people, 2,733 households, and 1,759 families residing in the town.

[13] It also had the nineteenth highest percentage of Jamaican residents in the US, at 5.80% of the town's population (tied with the Carol City section of Miami Gardens.

It was founded by the Lake Park Woman's Club in 1962, and it was established on the Town Hall's second floor.

[15] Ownership of the library was transferred from the Woman's Club to the town, and it was relocated in 1969 to a new building next door, where it currently resides.