Fort Myers, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1956 1987

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 of 15 shown

• Alderman Houselisted 1988
• Casa Riolisted 1996
• Dean Park Historic Residential Districtlisted 2013
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar Schoollisted 1992
• Edison Park Elementary Schoollisted 1999
• Thomas Edison Winter Estatelisted 1991
• Henry Ford Estatelisted 1988
• Fort Myers Downtown Commercial Districtlisted 1990
• Gilmer Heitman Houselisted 1996
• Lee County Courthouselisted 1989
• Menge-Hansen Marine Wayslisted 2009
• Murphy-Burroughs Houselisted 1984

Every listing in Lee County

Fort Myers grew from 62,298 to 86,395 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.

• 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Fort Myers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,484 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 24 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.

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:

• Palm and Pine Park
• Fort Myers Villas
• Lochmoor Waterway Estates
• Page Park
• Pine Manor
• Waterway Estates

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Myers: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Lee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Myers in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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 Lee 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 282700. 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.