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Bermont, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Punta Gorda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33982. The Survey maps it on the Bermont quadrangle.

Bermont within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bermont, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Bermont, surveyed 1956

Compare 1956 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Bermont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,603 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2005Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service08-SIOX FIRE-0427
23 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSCOUT CAMP (08)
19 August 2002Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2015Arson/incendiarism55 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREDNECK YACHT CLUB (08)
9 July 2016Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOUTBACK RANCH (08)
6 July 1998Natural62 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bermont: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highlands Co. Comm. - Charlotte Co. Shell MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bermont in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Tornado (EF1)Bermont$50,000NWS determined that a high end EF-1 tornado with 110 mph winds occurred in eastern Charlotte County, destroying a metal barn and snapping several telephone poles along with overturning a small vehicle trailer and pushing it into a tree.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBermont$50,000A county emergency management damage survey found a 0.2 mile wide damage path that extended for 4 miles, with all the damage blown down in the same direction, to the north northwest. Several trees were uprooted and power poles knocked down. A mobile home sustained minor roof damage, and the roof of a shed was blown 150 feet away. A central pivot irrigation rig was also twisted and damaged by the wind.
August 2024Funnel CloudBermont-Broadcast media relayed pictures of a funnel cloud between Babcock Ranch and Shell Creek.
June 2023Funnel CloudBermont-Broadcast media relayed report of funnel cloud north of Bermont Road in Charlotte County.
July 2008HailBermont-Nickel size hail was reported just west of Babcock Ranch along Bermont Road.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sparkman4.9 miles13
Babcock Ranch5.4 miles12
Tuckers Corner6.1 miles12
Ridge Harbor10.7 miles13
Sans Souci11.3 miles13
Morgantown11.7 miles14
Cleveland11.9 miles13
Peace River Shores12.2 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122573495The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294677. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.