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Harbour Heights, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Port Charlotte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33983. It stands on Hunter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Punta Gorda quadrangle. 3,428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Harbour Heights 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 Harbour Heights, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Harbour Heights, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Harbour Heights grew from 2,987 to 3,428 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
20102,987
20203,428+441 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

404 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Harbour Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,473 acres in total. 102 started naturally. 25 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
Natural102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Equipment and vehicle use56
Misuse of fire by a minor56
Debris and open burning48
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony13
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Fireworks3

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
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-SABLEWOOD FIRE-0425
3 September 1996Natural35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2010Natural32 acresFlorida Forest Service14-SWEATY BEAR FIRE-0281
25 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service14-BRANSON FIRE-0476

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Harbour Heights: 7 producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Calcium, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sunland Paving Co. - Sunland Pelican PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hendrickson Seashell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 31CalciumProducer
Rigby Airport PitCalciumProducer
Route 31 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Apac-Florida - Viercocken PitSandProducer
Peace River Conservancy - Kings Highway MineSandUnknown
Peace River Conservancy - Kings Hwy Pit.SandProducer

Every working 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
Sans Souci1.9 miles13
Deep Creek1.9 miles11
Morgantown2.1 miles14
Cleveland2.2 miles13
Ridge Harbor2.5 miles13
Harbor View2.5 miles13
Tee and Green Estates3.2 miles13
Solana3.3 miles13

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 Harbour HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1584944The 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 283722. 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.