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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.

Charleston Park within Lee 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 Charleston Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Charleston Park, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Charleston 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.

YearPeople Change
2000411
2010218-193 (-47%)
2020235+17 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

285 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Railroad operations and maintenance47
Equipment and vehicle use33
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks2

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
5 September 2002Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service2017-17-0306
18 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service36/2ND ST. ILLEGAL BURN
1 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceIRVING (36)
8 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOFT (26)
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-17-1102

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fugate Constr. - Number One MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Alva PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fugate Mine No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Labelle Limerock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 12-026Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Alva1.7 miles13
Telegraph Estates6.0 miles13
Lehigh Acres6.0 miles13
Olga7.1 miles13
Buckingham8.3 miles13
Verandah8.5 miles13
Fort Myers Shores8.8 miles13
Morse Shores11.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Charleston ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2296234The 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.