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Pompano Beach ( POMP-ə-noh) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 112,046. Located 35 miles (56 km) north of Miami, it is a principal city in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,158,824 people in 2017. Pompano Beach Airpark, located within the city, is the home of the Goodyear Blimp Spirit of Innovation.

The Sample-McDougald House (also known as the Sample Estate or Pinehaven) is a 4,700 square feet (440 m2) historic home in Pompano Beach, Florida, built in 1916. It is currently located at 450 Northeast 10th Street, but was originally built on Dixie Highway and moved to its present location by the Sample-McDougald House Preservation Society in 2001. On September 15, 2004, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The house is open as a house museum of pioneer South Florida lifestyle. The house grounds are Centennial Park, maintained by the city of Pompano Beach.

Pompano Beach High School (formerly Pompano High School, Pompano Beach Senior High School and The Pompano Beach High School Institute of International Studies) is a college-preparatory school located in Pompano Beach, Florida, which instructs grades 9 through 12. Founded in 1928, it is the second oldest high school in the Broward School District.Pompano Beach High received an FCAT school grade of "A" for the 2013–14 academic year. The school has maintained an "A" ranking for 11 of the 12 years since the score-based system began during the 2001–02 academic school year. Pompano Beach High School has been rated 260th best high school in the country and the 9th best in the State of Florida. Since 1958, the school's sports teams have been named the Golden Tornadoes. According to the 2014 edition of U.S. News & World Report, Pompano Beach High School has been ranked the 19th Best High School in the State of Florida.

Blanche Ely High School is a high school located in Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida. The school is named for Blanche Ely, former principal and social activist.In addition to Pompano Beach, Ely serves a portion of Deerfield Beach and a portion of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

Pompano Beach Municipal Stadium was a stadium in Pompano Beach, Florida primarily used for professional and amateur baseball from 1957 until its demolition in 2008. The ballpark was dedicated on March 22, 1957, and held 4,500 people. The stadium was the home of the Washington Senators and Texas Rangers at spring training from 1961 until 1986, multiple minor league clubs, and the Pompano Beach High School baseball team.

The Ely Educational Museum, 1500 NW 6 Avenue, Pompano Beach, Florida is located in the Blanche & Joseph Ely House. (The address is sometimes given as 595 NW 15th St.; it is on the corner of the two streets.) The Elys were teachers and leaders in the black community. Blanche Ely High School (formerly Blanche Ely Negro High, and before that Pompano Colored School), where she was principal for many years, was named for her. The city has owned the house since 1997. The museum opened briefly in 2000, but closed in 2007. It reopened in 2019, having received renovation funds from the city of Pompano Beach and the Historical Resources Division of the Florida Department of State. People can "look through archives and research the area's African-American communities with yearbooks, old photographs and other items that were part of the era when Ely and her husband were educators."

Pompano Beach Airpark (IATA: PPM, ICAO: KPMP, FAA LID: PMP) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) northeast of the central business district of Pompano Beach, in Broward County, Florida, United States. This airport is publicly owned by the City of Pompano Beach.This airport is assigned a three-letter location identifier of PMP by the Federal Aviation Administration, but the International Air Transport Association (IATA) airport code is PPM (the IATA assigned PMP to Pimaga in Papua New Guinea). The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) airport code is KPMP.

Elizabeth Nicole "Liz" Jacobson (March 26, 1984 – September 28, 2005) was a United States Air Force airman who was killed in action in the Iraq War in 2005. A member of the U.S. Air Force Security Forces, she was the first female U.S. airman killed in the line of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first Air Force Security Forces member killed in conflict since the Vietnam War.

Pompano Citi Centre is a primarily open-air shopping mall in Pompano Beach, Florida. The center consists of a big box retailer strip, in addition to a small lifestyle center section. The mall's main anchor stores are JCPenney, Lowe's, Ross Dress For Less, Big Lots, and Pet Smart. Burlington, TJ Maxx, and Five Below will move into the former Sears with both stores scheduled to open in fall 2020.[1]

The Pompano Beach Mound, located at Indian Mound Park in Pompano Beach, Florida, in Broward County, is a 100-foot (30 m) wide, 7-foot (2.1 m) tall oval Tequesta burial mound. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 2014.

Leisureville was a census-designated place (CDP) in Broward County, Florida, United States, and now a neighborhood of the City of Pompano Beach, Florida. The population was 1,147 at the 2000 census.

Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park, more commonly known simply as Pompano Park, is a standardbred harness racing track and casino in Pompano Beach, Florida. It is billed as "The Winter Home of Harness Racing," as its tropical South Florida location makes it an ideal alternative for horsemen, when most of the racetracks to the north are subject to racing in snow, ice and bitter cold conditions. The track operates its live racing meet for about ten months out of every year, with a short break during the last half of June through the second week in August. Like most racetracks, Pompano simulcasts horse races from all over the US and Canada, allowing its patrons to wager on racing approximately 363 days per year. Pompano Park is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment (formerly Eldorado Resorts). The track has been converted into a racino with slot machines. It currently offers live poker games, under betting limitations imposed by Florida law. In 2018, Eldorado announced a joint venture with the Cordish Companies to develop the area surrounding Pompano Park with a mixed-use project including retail, dining, office, residential, and hotel elements.In 2022, it will be renamed Harrah's.