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Chokoloskee, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34138. It stands on Chokoloskee Island. The Survey maps it on the Chokoloskee quadrangle. 346 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Chokoloskee within Collier County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chokoloskee, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Chokoloskee, surveyed 1956

On record in Chokoloskee

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Chokoloskee fell from 359 to 346 between 2010 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
2010359
2020346-13 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Chokoloskee between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
11 September 2000Natural2.9 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOCHOPELAKE
11 September 1997Natural60 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHELLS ACRE
15 August 2012Natural2.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHALFWAY CREEK
12 August 2005Natural42 acresEverglades National ParkPLANT'N 2
9 July 1997Natural5.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveSEAGRAPE
16 July 2005Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreservePLANTATION
13 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHALF CREEK
10 May 2005Natural46 acresEverglades National ParkSUNDAY BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier 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
Plantation Island2.2 miles11
Everglades City3.4 miles10
Carnestown6.8 miles10
Ochopee6.9 miles10
Fakahatchee7.8 miles10
Lee Cypress9.1 miles10
Copeland9.7 miles10
Weavers Station10.7 miles11

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 ChokoloskeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1075868The 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 293963. 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.