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.
Then and now
1956 to 1981The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresGrove 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,804 | |
| 2020 | 2,174 | +370 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Englewood quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
277 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 125 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BOUNDRY (58) |
| 20 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Handy Phil - Handy Phil Pit | Sand | Producer | ||
| Pit Number 007 | Calcium | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Grove City | $100,000 | A 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 1998 | Lightning | Grove City | $10,000 | Lightning ignited a brush fire which burned five acres at Lemon Bay Park. |
| January 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grove City | - | A home weather station on Don Pedro Island measured a wind gust to 58 mph. |
| July 1999 | Waterspout | Grove City | - | A long-lived waterspout was reported by the Charlotte County Emergency Management which dissipated one mile west of Cape Haze. |
| January 1998 | Waterspout | Grove City | - | A waterspout was observed from the Indigo Isle Mobile Home Park in Lemon Bay of the Intercoastal Waterway northwest of Buck Creek. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Grove City | - | Marble-size hail fell. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaefer | 0.5 miles | 12 | |
| New Point Comfort | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Manasota Key | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Punta Gorda Beach | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Sancassa | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Rotonda | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Rotunda-West | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Cape Haze | 4.7 miles | 12 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1547798 | The 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.






