Charleston Park, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33920. It stands on Spanish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alva quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1956 to 1987The 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.


Population over time
3 figuresCharleston Park fell from 411 to 235 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 | 411 | |
| 2010 | 218 | -193 (-47%) |
| 2020 | 235 | +17 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alva quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
285 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Charleston Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,286 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 65 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2017-17-0306 |
| 18 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 36/2ND ST. ILLEGAL BURN |
| 1 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | IRVING (36) |
| 8 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | LOFT (26) |
| 31 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2003-17-1102 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Charleston Park: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fugate Constr. - Number One Mine | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Alva Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Fugate Mine No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Labelle Limerock Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Pit 12-026 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alva | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Telegraph Estates | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lehigh Acres | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Olga | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Buckingham | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Verandah | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Fort Myers Shores | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Morse Shores | 11.6 miles | 14 |
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 Charleston Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2296234 | 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 1853240. 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.






