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Coconut, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Bonita Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34134. It lies near Monkey Joe Key. The Survey maps it on the Estero quadrangle.

Coconut 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 Coconut, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Coconut, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Coconut between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,463 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 10 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
Natural33
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2007Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Service36/CROSS ROAD FIRE
11 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service11/ TECO ARENA FIRE
9 August 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2011Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAY PRESERVE (36)
4 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service36/THREE OAKS FIRE
2 August 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coconut in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016LightningCoconut1 killedA 35 year old man was struck by lightning while working on the 6th floor lanai of a building under construction. Witnesses said that this was the only lightning strike seen or heard in the area from the storm. Attempts to resuscitate the man were unsuccessful, and he died at the scene.
May 2009HailCoconut-The public reported nickel sized hail near mile marker 120 on Interstate 75.

Every storm 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
Council2.5 miles15
Estero3.2 miles15
Bonita Shores4.8 miles14
San Carlos Park5.1 miles15
Bonita Springs5.2 miles14
Three Oaks5.4 miles15
Miromar Lakes6.4 miles15
Forest Island Park6.4 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122593029The 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 295209. 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.