Fort Lauderdale, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1949 1994

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 12 records

• U.S. Car. No. 1National Historic Landmark · listed 1977
• Bryan Buildinglisted 1997
• Dr. Willard Van Orsdel King Houselisted 2006
• New River Innlisted 1972
• North Woodlawn Cemeterylisted 2017
• South Side Schoollisted 2006
• St. Anthony Schoollisted 1997
• Stranahan Houselisted 1973
• Alfred and Olive Thorpe Lustron Houselisted 2007
• West Side Grade School, Oldlisted 2012
• Williams Houselisted 2005
• Fort Lauderdale Woman's Clublisted 2019

Fort Lauderdale grew from 165,521 to 182,760 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.

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.

• 1949 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fort Lauderdale in 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Avon Park
• Boulevard Gardens
• Breezeswept Park Estates
• Broadview Park
• Broward Estates
• Broward Gardens

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Lauderdale: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Broward County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Lauderdale in 2 storm reports in 1993: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Broward County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282693. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.