Everglades City, Florida
10 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 34141. It stands on Barron River. The Survey maps it on the Everglades City quadrangle. 352 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 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 Everglades City
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 3 records
Bank of Everglades Buildinglisted 1999
Everglades Laundrylisted 2001
Old Collier County Courthouselisted 2013
Population over time
2 figuresEverglades City fell from 400 to 352 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 | 400 | |
| 2020 | 352 | -48 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Everglades City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Everglades City between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1,468 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| 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 |
| 20 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | MONROE |
| 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 |
| 16 June 1994 | Natural | 2.9 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | WASHOUT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Everglades City in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Everglades City | $444,590 | An EF0 Tornado touched down at the Everglades City Airport, flipping two Cessna Aircrafts while moving northeast. The tornado then moved across western sections of Everglades City producing roof and minor structural damage to a condo, school, and storage building and also downing trees and power poles and damaging fences before dissipating on the north side of town. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Everglades City | $25,000 | Public aerial drone footage revealed a flooded Everglades City with a large amount of standing water on the ground and entering resident homes. The 48 hour rainfall totals in Everglades City reached up to 14 inches on June 11 and 12th. Other areas across Collier County were highly impacted and received up to 20 inches of rain throughout the 72 hour event from June 11 though 13th. With several rounds of heavy rainfall, there was 19.72 of rain measured at the Oasis RAWS in southeastern Collier County. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everglades City | $5,000 | Four boats suffered minor damage from thunderstorm winds |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everglades City | $5,000 | An old wood frame house, under reconstruction following Hurricane Andrew and termite damage, was totally destroyed by thunderstorm winds. |
| January 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Everglades City | - | Members of the public shared video of the tornadoes it passed near Everglades City after coming ashore. The survey observed a leaning power pole along Tamiami Trail just east of the intersection with State Road 29. The damage was tornadic in nature and matches with radar velocity/reflectivity at the time as a strong circulation passed over. Estimated peak wind of 85 mph. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Everglades City | - | The Sheriff and FHP reported three-quarter inch hail covering the roadway at the intersection of I-75 and CR 951. |
| November 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Everglades City | - | A tornado touched down near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Highway 29 damaging trees along its path as it moved to the north. |
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 | 1.3 miles | 11 | |
| Chokoloskee | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Carnestown | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Ochopee | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Fakahatchee | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Lee Cypress | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Copeland | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Weavers Station | 7.5 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 Everglades City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q994815 | 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 282293. 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.




