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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.

Bokeelia within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Bokeelia, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bokeelia, surveyed 1956

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

Population over time

3 figures

Bokeelia 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,997
20101,780-217 (-11%)
20201,855+75 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

20 since 1992

Regional 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 burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/THE BAY POINT FIRE
15 June 2011Natural76 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCROW'S NEST (36)
1 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenance70 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2016Thunderstorm WindBokeelia$15,000Local law enforcement reported several power poles and lines down along Tropical Lane in Bokeelia.
December 2020Thunderstorm WindBokeelia$10,000Reports received via social media of overturned trailer causing damage to a home and vehicle on NW 32nd Ln in Cape Coral.
July 2015HailBokeelia-A trained spotter near Burnt Store Marina reported penny size hail.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Bokeelia-A waterspout came onshore in an undeveloped area east of Bokeelia and dissipated.
August 2000Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Pineland3.1 miles14
Port Boca Grande5.4 miles13
Cayo Pelau5.8 miles12
Boca Grande6.2 miles13
Pine Island Center6.7 miles14
Matlacha Isles6.9 miles12
Cayo Costa6.9 miles14
Matlacha7.0 miles12

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 BokeeliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2206571The 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.