El Jobean, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Port Charlotte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33953. It stands on Sam Knight Creek. The Survey maps it on the El Jobean quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1956 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in El Jobean
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 2 records
El Jobean Hotellisted 1999
El Jobean Post Office and General Storelisted 1999
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS El Jobean quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
650 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 650 fires within 5 miles of El Jobean between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,180 acres in total. 164 started naturally. 64 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 200 |
| Natural | 164 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 93 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 64 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 59 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | YORK AVE (08) |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 08-EL JOBEAN PARK FIRE-0452 |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 08-TIPPECANOE ONE FIRE-0454 |
| 25 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Jobean in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | El Jobean | $10,000 | A Myakka State Forest Ranger reported tornado damage to a ranger station and a mobile home trailer at around 3:50 am. A subsequent NWS storm survey found a 50 yard wide, one mile long intermittent path of damage that included snapped and uprooted trees and a mobile home trailer that had been picked up and tossed 30 to 40 yards. The damage was found to be consistent with an EF-0 tornado making multiple touchdowns with estimated peak winds of 85 mph. The survey found low end EF-0 damage to the east of the Myakka River that included minor roof damage, a bent stop sign pole, and numerous broken tree branches. |
| September 1993 | Hail | El Jobean | - | Marble-size hail fell. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vizcaya Lakes | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Murdock | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Sancassa | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Port Charlotte | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Rotonda | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Grove City | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Shaefer | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| New Point Comfort | 7.3 miles | 12 |
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 El Jobean | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5351465 | 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 282131. 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.






