An early account of how Pompano got its name:

Eighteen years ago the railroad went through to Miami, opening up the whole country as it went and one of our pioneer surveyors, Mr. Franklin Sheen, was kept very busy spying out the land and locating settlers near to the railroad.

In his explorations up and down the beach to Miami, he selected Pompano as the leading farming settlement in the whole county and succeeded in inducing people to invest there and it was necessary to give it a name. While consulting about a name at the old Park Cottage, in West Palm Beach, in company with some prospective purchasers, the company had had pompano fish for dinner and in view of the fact that they all considered it an "excellent" meal, it was determined that the name "Pompano" would be a good name for an "excellent" farming country and it was forthwith "dubbed" Pompano and that name went into the railroad with a request that they put a station there.

The Tropical Sun [West Palm Beach], October 17, 1914