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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.

El Jobean within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of El Jobean, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of El Jobean, surveyed 1956

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

650 since 1992

Regional 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 use200
Natural164
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism64
Misuse of fire by a minor59
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Recreation and ceremony17
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Fireworks7
Smoking1

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceYORK AVE (08)
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-EL JOBEAN PARK FIRE-0452
28 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-TIPPECANOE ONE FIRE-0454
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2015Tornado (EF0)El Jobean$10,000A 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 1993HailEl Jobean-Marble-size hail fell.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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
Vizcaya Lakes0.7 miles13
Murdock4.8 miles11
Sancassa5.3 miles12
Port Charlotte6.4 miles13
Rotonda7.0 miles12
Grove City7.1 miles12
Shaefer7.2 miles12
New Point Comfort7.3 miles12

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 JobeanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5351465The 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.