Loxahatchee Groves is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 3,180. Loxahatchee Groves was incorporated November 1, 2006, as the 38th municipality in Palm Beach County. The first election for town council members was held on March 13, 2007. The area had been settled past 1917, although Loxahatchee Groves did not become a municipality until 2006. The town bills itself as “Florida’s Last Frontier”. Loxahatchee Groves was incorporated primarily in order to protect the Place from the encroaching urbanization of South Florida, as handy cities continued to fabricate and to preserve the area’s rural character.

The town derives its publish from the Loxahatchee River. “Loxahatchee” is from the Seminole words lowchow (turtle) and hatchee (river), thus translating to “river of turtles”. Loxahatchee Groves is bounded on the east by Royal Palm Beach, on the south by Wellington, and upon the west and the north by The Acreage and Loxahatchee. It has an Place of approximately 12.5 square miles (32.4 km²).

The area now known as Loxahatchee Groves was originally a ration of the 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km) of estate purchased by the Southern States Land and Timber Company in 1902. After the West Palm Beach Canal (C-51), which united Lake Okeechobee at Canal Point to West Palm Beach, was completed in 1917, George Frederick Bensel, the Southern States sales manager, envisioned a “waterfront” farming community along the canal. Bensel, and company engineer Torvald Garfield “T. G.” Thorgesen, created the first topographical map of Loxahatchee Groves during the in the same way as three years. Bensel, Thorgesen, and others then normal the Palm Beach Loxahatchee Company, and bought 6,500 acres (26 km²) from the Southern States Land and Timber Company, naming the land “Loxahatchee Farms”. The Palm Beach Loxahatchee Company built approximately 30 mi (48 km) of canals and roads, which were to be maintained by the Loxahatchee Groves Drainage District, that now is known as the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District.

Bensel opened a entire sum gas station, grocery store, and herald office in 1925. Loxahatchee Groves customary extensive damage during the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, with in the region of every home knocked off of its foundations. Bensel’s brother Thomas began a project in the 1930s which encouraged the residents to plant citrus, resulting in roughly 56,000 new trees bodily planted. A water pump was built at State Road 80 (Southern Boulevard) and D Road during that time. The pump allowed water to be drawn from the West Palm Beach Canal. The Palm Beach Loxahatchee Company sold Loxahatchee Groves to Loxahatchee Investments in 1958.