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Gateway, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lehigh Acres census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33913. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers SE quadrangle. 10,376 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Gateway within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

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.

Topographic sheet of Gateway, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Gateway, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Gateway grew from 2,943 to 10,376 between 2000 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
20002,943
20108,401+5,458 (+185%)
202010,376+1,975 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

436 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 436 fires within 5 miles of Gateway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,028 acres in total. 131 started naturally. 33 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
Natural131
Railroad operations and maintenance81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Equipment and vehicle use36
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Arson/incendiarism33
Fireworks13
Debris and open burning9
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony4

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
5 September 2017Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWESTGATE (36)
3 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/82 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gateway: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Triple C PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Florida Rock Industries - Ft. Myers MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Harper Brothers - Colonial MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Renaissance3.4 miles14
Page Park5.9 miles14
Fort Myers Villas6.1 miles14
Villas6.5 miles14
Pine Manor6.8 miles15
Buckingham6.8 miles13
Miromar Lakes7.0 miles15
Whiskey Creek7.4 miles15

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 GatewayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2279712The 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 1853254. 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.