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Harlem Heights, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33908. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers SW quadrangle. 1,930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Harlem Heights 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 Harlem Heights, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Harlem Heights, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Harlem Heights grew from 1,065 to 1,930 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
20001,065
20101,975+910 (+85%)
20201,930-45 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Harlem Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 416 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 9 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
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 August 1998Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 1993Debris and open burning7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Aspen Indian Creek Park1.9 miles14
Iona1.9 miles15
Biggar2.0 miles15
Cypress Lake2.1 miles15
Truckland2.4 miles14
McGregor3.2 miles15
Cape Coral3.4 miles15
Shell Point Village3.6 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 Harlem HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2034525The 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 1853257. 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.