North River Shores, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stuart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34994. It stands on Bessy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palm City quadrangle. 3,459 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1948 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
3 figuresNorth River Shores grew from 3,101 to 3,459 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3,101 | |
| 2010 | 3,079 | -22 (-1%) |
| 2020 | 3,459 | +380 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1948 USGS Palm City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Palm City quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
140 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of North River Shores between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,426 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 14 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 | 45 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (MA) MEADOWS (509) |
| 4 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BERRY (43) |
| 30 August 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HIGH MEADOWS (43) |
| 2 August 2003 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2003-16-1174 |
| 2 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2014 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BOATRAMP (43) |
| 17 August 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North River Shores: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jensen Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse Point | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Palm Lake Park | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Rio | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Stuart | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Snug Harbor | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Ocean Breeze Park | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Skyline Heights | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Jensen Beach | 3.3 miles | 15 |
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 North River Shores | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2586408 | 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 308058. 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.







