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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.

North River Shores within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of North River Shores, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of North River Shores, surveyed 1948

Population over time

3 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
20003,101
20103,079-22 (-1%)
20203,459+380 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

140 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural45
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks3
Smoking3
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
27 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) MEADOWS (509)
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBERRY (43)
30 August 2013Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGH MEADOWS (43)
2 August 2003Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-16-1174
2 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOATRAMP (43)
17 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jensen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Martin 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
Lighthouse Point1.1 miles17
Palm Lake Park1.1 miles17
Rio1.6 miles16
Stuart1.6 miles17
Snug Harbor2.8 miles16
Ocean Breeze Park2.9 miles16
Skyline Heights3.1 miles16
Jensen Beach3.3 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 North River ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2586408The 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.