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Fellsmere, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fellsmere census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32948. The Survey maps it on the Fellsmere quadrangle. 4,834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Fellsmere within Indian River County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fellsmere, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fellsmere, surveyed 1949

On record in Fellsmere

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fellsmere fell from 5,197 to 4,834 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
20105,197
20204,834-363 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Fellsmere between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,045 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 5 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
Natural71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning13
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
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
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFITZROY (31)
6 August 2008Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service(IR) OUT OF GAS (0556)
5 August 2008Natural13 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNORTH LINE (05)
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1992Natural35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1993Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fellsmere in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2023FloodFellsmere$400,000Emergency management confirmed a total of ten buildings with water intrusion in Fellsmere and Vero Lake Estates. Also reports that all lanes of 101st Ave were closed at 85th St in Vero Lake Estates. There was a petroleum spill due to eight stalled vehicles. In addition, all lanes of 79th St were closed in Fellsmere and two vehicles were stalled in Fellsmere due to the flooding rain.
September 2017Flash FloodFellsmere$50,000Excessive rainfall from Hurricane Irma produced flash flooding in Fellsmere. Indian River County Sheriffs and Fellsmere Police rescued 12 people from flood waters and transported them in a high-water vehicle to the nearby Fellsmere Elementary School evacuation shelter, which was also surrounded by high water and impassible.
June 2002Flash FloodFellsmere$10,000Flooding from heavy rains rendered some roads impassable and flooded two homes in the Fellsmere area.
November 2023Heavy RainFellsmere-Weather underground site KFLFELLS9 measured 8.09 inches of rainfall. Emergency management reports most streets in Fellsmere have water covering them, up to a foot of standing water reported in some locations.
April 2020HailFellsmere-Fellsmere Police Department reported nickel to quarter size hail.
April 2016HailFellsmere-An Indian River County Emergency Management official observed quarter size hail in Fellsmere during a severe thunderstorm. Photos confirmed the hail size.
May 2012HailFellsmere-A storm chaser reported nickel sized hail just east of Fellsmere during a strong thunderstorm.
February 2007HailFellsmere-no account filed
August 2005HailFellsmere-no account filed
July 2003HailFellsmere-no account filed
June 2000HailFellsmere-no account filed
May 1999Funnel CloudFellsmere-no account filed
May 1999HailFellsmere-no account filed
June 1999HailFellsmere-no account filed
March 1996HailFellsmere-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Indian River 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
Brookside2.7 miles17
Vero Lake Estates4.2 miles16
Roseland7.4 miles17
Cummings7.7 miles17
Sebastian7.7 miles17
Wabasso8.9 miles19
Orchid9.8 miles17
North Beach10.0 miles17

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 FellsmereAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2153534The 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 282414. 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.