Captiva, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sanibel Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33924. It stands on Captiva Island. The Survey maps it on the Captiva quadrangle. 318 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 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 Captiva
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 2 records
Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic Districtlisted 2013
Tween Waters Inn Historic Districtlisted 2011
Population over time
3 figuresCaptiva fell from 379 to 318 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 | 379 | |
| 2010 | 583 | +204 (+54%) |
| 2020 | 318 | -265 (-45%) |
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 Captiva 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 Captiva quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Captiva in 2013, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 February 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge | LCEC FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Captiva in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2004: 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 waterspout, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Flood | Captiva | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Captiva | $4,000 | One fence and one tree were knocked down as well as several large limbs. Damage to trees and fences suggest a north to south wind event. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Captiva | - | A storm survey showed a convergent damage pattern and an increase in apparent wind intensity consistent with a tornado. The most pronounced damage pattern was in a small area of southern Captiva Island. Damage reached the Fujita Scale F2 intensity that was was mix of both tornado and hurricane wind damage, making an assessment difficult. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Captiva | - | A waterspout over Pine Island Sound moved west across Pine Island then into the Gulf of Mexico. |
| August 1999 | Waterspout | Captiva | - | A waterspout was reported five miles south of Captiva. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wulfert | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Upper Captiva | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Flamingo Bay | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Saint James City | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Cayo Costa | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Pine Island Center | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Ybel | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Punta Rassa | 9.7 miles | 13 |
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 Captiva | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2586248 | 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 280017. 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.







