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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.

Everglades City within Collier County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Everglades City, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Everglades City, surveyed 1956

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

Population over time

2 figures

Everglades 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.

YearPeople Change
2010400
2020352-48 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

25 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives 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
11 September 2000Natural2.9 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOCHOPELAKE
11 September 1997Natural60 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHELLS ACRE
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveMONROE
15 August 2012Natural2.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHALFWAY CREEK
12 August 2005Natural42 acresEverglades National ParkPLANT'N 2
9 July 1997Natural5.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveSEAGRAPE
16 July 2005Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreservePLANTATION
16 June 1994Natural2.9 acresBig Cypress National PreserveWASHOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Tornado (EF0)Everglades City$444,590An 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 2024Flash FloodEverglades City$25,000Public 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 2005Thunderstorm WindEverglades City$5,000Four boats suffered minor damage from thunderstorm winds
April 1993Thunderstorm WindEverglades City$5,000An old wood frame house, under reconstruction following Hurricane Andrew and termite damage, was totally destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2022Tornado (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 2003HailEverglades City-The Sheriff and FHP reported three-quarter inch hail covering the roadway at the intersection of I-75 and CR 951.
November 1998Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Collier 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
Plantation Island1.3 miles11
Chokoloskee3.4 miles11
Carnestown3.6 miles10
Ochopee5.0 miles10
Fakahatchee5.8 miles10
Lee Cypress5.9 miles10
Copeland6.6 miles10
Weavers Station7.5 miles11

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994815The 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.