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Cudjoe Key, Florida

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1972 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Lower Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33042. It stands on Cudjoe Key. The Survey maps it on the Summerland Key quadrangle. 2,019 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Cudjoe Key within Monroe County

Then and now

1972 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 17 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cudjoe Key, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Cudjoe Key, surveyed 1972

Population over time

3 figures

Cudjoe Key grew from 1,695 to 2,019 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
20001,695
20101,763+68 (+4%)
20202,019+256 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Cudjoe Key between 1993 and 2011, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle 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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Key Deer RefugeTRAILER FIRE
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2009-18-0234
3 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNational Key Deer RefugeLITTLE KNOCKEMDOWN
10 June 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cudjoe Key: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Frank Keevan and Sons - Summerland Key MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Tarmac-Florida - Cudjoe KeyLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cudjoe Key in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCudjoe Key$500A wind gust of 62 mph was recorded at the U.S. Air Force Aerostat Facility on the north side of Cudjoe Key. Two trees were downed on the grounds of the facility.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCudjoe Key$500Storm shutters damaged and blown from a house.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindCudjoe Key$250Several 3-inch diameter tree limbs were downed and newspaper stand boxes blown over along Jolly Roger Drive on Cudjoe Key.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCudjoe Key-A wind gust of 61 mph was measured during a severe thunderstorm at Cudjoe Key, along the south shore of Cudjoe Bay.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindCudjoe Key-A wind gust to 60 mph was recorded at the Key West Naval Air Station.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Pirates Cove1.7 miles9
Summerland Key3.0 miles5
Sugarloaf Shores3.9 miles9
Perky4.2 miles9
Bay Point5.9 miles9
Big Pine Key7.7 miles4
Big Pine7.9 miles4
El Chico10.0 miles7

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 Cudjoe KeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1143140The 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 1867131. 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.

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.