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Grove City, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grove City-Rotonda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34224. It stands on Oyster Creek. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle. 2,174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Grove City within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grove City, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Grove City, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Grove City grew from 1,804 to 2,174 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
20101,804
20202,174+370 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Grove City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,859 acres in total. 125 started naturally. 20 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
Natural125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use36
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2001Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOUNDRY (58)
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1995Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grove City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand. 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
Handy Phil - Handy Phil PitSandProducer
Pit Number 007CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grove City in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 2 waterspout, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
January 1998Tornado (F0)Grove City$100,000A waterspout moved onshore as a tornado and destroyed two mobile homes and damaged up to another 25 at the Indigo Mobile Home Park near State Road 775 and Grove Road. Most of the damage was carport, pool cage, torn aluminum siding and shed damage along Emerald and Amber Streets in the Indigo Mobile Home Park.
March 1998LightningGrove City$10,000Lightning ignited a brush fire which burned five acres at Lemon Bay Park.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindGrove City-A home weather station on Don Pedro Island measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
July 1999WaterspoutGrove City-A long-lived waterspout was reported by the Charlotte County Emergency Management which dissipated one mile west of Cape Haze.
January 1998WaterspoutGrove City-A waterspout was observed from the Indigo Isle Mobile Home Park in Lemon Bay of the Intercoastal Waterway northwest of Buck Creek.
September 1993HailGrove City-Marble-size hail fell.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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
Shaefer0.5 miles12
New Point Comfort1.4 miles12
Manasota Key1.5 miles12
Punta Gorda Beach1.8 miles12
Sancassa1.9 miles12
Rotonda2.9 miles12
Rotunda-West4.2 miles12
Cape Haze4.7 miles12

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 Grove CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1547798The 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 283470. 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.