Bokeelia, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pine Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33922. It lies near Howard Mound. The Survey maps it on the Bokeelia quadrangle. 1,855 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1956 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1956 against another survey:
On record in Bokeelia
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 8 records
- Hendrickson Fish Cabin at Captiva Rockslisted 1991
- Ice House at Captiva Rockslisted 1991
- Ice House at Point Blancolisted 1991
- Larsen Fish Cabin at Captiva Rockslisted 1991
- Leneer Fish Cabin at Captiva Rockslisted 1991
- Norton Fish Cabin at Captiva Rockslisted 1991
- Punta Gorda Fish Company Cabinlisted 2003
- Whidden Fish Cabin at Captiva Rockslisted 1991
Population over time
3 figuresBokeelia fell from 1,997 to 1,855 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,997 | |
| 2010 | 1,780 | -217 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 1,855 | +75 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bokeelia quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Bokeelia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Bokeelia between 1992 and 2016, burning about 245 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 36/THE BAY POINT FIRE |
| 15 June 2011 | Natural | 76 acres | Florida Forest Service | CROW'S NEST (36) |
| 1 June 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 May 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 May 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 70 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bokeelia in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bokeelia | $15,000 | Local law enforcement reported several power poles and lines down along Tropical Lane in Bokeelia. |
| December 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bokeelia | $10,000 | Reports received via social media of overturned trailer causing damage to a home and vehicle on NW 32nd Ln in Cape Coral. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Bokeelia | - | A trained spotter near Burnt Store Marina reported penny size hail. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Bokeelia | - | A waterspout came onshore in an undeveloped area east of Bokeelia and dissipated. |
| August 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Bokeelia | - | A mariner reported that a waterspout over Charlotte Harbor moved onshore as an F0 tornado and quickly dissipated near Bokeelia on northern Pine Island. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pineland | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Port Boca Grande | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Cayo Pelau | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Boca Grande | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pine Island Center | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Matlacha Isles | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Cayo Costa | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Matlacha | 7.0 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Bokeelia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2206571 | The 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 279189. 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.
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.







