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.
Then and now
1956 to 1988The 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.


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.
Ted Smallwood Storelisted 1974 · 0.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresChokoloskee 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 359 | |
| 2020 | 346 | -13 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Chokoloskee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
18 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2000 | Natural | 2.9 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | OCHOPELAKE |
| 11 September 1997 | Natural | 60 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | HELLS ACRE |
| 15 August 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | HALFWAY CREEK |
| 12 August 2005 | Natural | 42 acres | Everglades National Park | PLANT'N 2 |
| 9 July 1997 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | SEAGRAPE |
| 16 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | PLANTATION |
| 13 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | HALF CREEK |
| 10 May 2005 | Natural | 46 acres | Everglades National Park | SUNDAY BAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plantation Island | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Everglades City | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Carnestown | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Ochopee | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Fakahatchee | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Lee Cypress | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Copeland | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Weavers Station | 10.7 miles | 11 |
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 Chokoloskee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1075868 | 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 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.




