Excerpt from a letter written by Pompano resident Mrs. Ollie Tinney, dated December 13, 1914:

Fifteen years carries us back to when the Government surveyor, Frank Sheen first put Pompano on the map.

At that time there were large schools of pompano fish in the ocean and canal near town. So after studying over an appropriate name, it is said that while feasting on one of the delicious fish, the thought came to him that as the fish was claimed to be the best in the sea, so the beautiful tract of land he had found, with its various advantages for farming and town, would be very appropriately named if called Pompano. Hence the name.

Published in the Fort Lauderdale Sentinel, January 8, 1915.