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Fort Pierce, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Pierce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34950. It stands on Moore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Pierce quadrangle. 47,297 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Fort Pierce within St. Lucie 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 Fort Pierce, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fort Pierce, surveyed 1949

On record in Fort Pierce

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Pierce grew from 41,590 to 47,297 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
201041,590
202047,297+5,707 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Fort Pierce between 1992 and 2020, burning about 637 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 7 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
3 September 1996Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(SL) AIRPORT (1342)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Fort Pierce: 14 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stewart - Stewart MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Airport MineSilicaProducer
North PitSilicaProducer
Ralls MineSilicaProducer
Saggy PitSilicaProducer
Minton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morgan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Lucie MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Pierce in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 1995HailFort Pierce$500Severe thunderstorms dropped baseball-size hail near Oslo Road, 10 miles southwest of Vero Beach, and near Fort Pierce. Numerous cars were damaged and windows were broken in two mobile homes.

Every storm recorded in St. Lucie 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
Glidden Park0.7 miles21
Paradise Park2.0 miles21
Sunland Gardens2.2 miles20
Cortez Estates2.4 miles20
Anglevillas2.6 miles20
Harmony Heights2.8 miles20
Saint Lucie3.0 miles21
Fort Pierce Shores3.1 miles21

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 Fort PierceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q584340The 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 307964. 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.