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Ochopee, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. The Survey maps it on the Ochopee quadrangle.

Ochopee within Collier County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ochopee, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Ochopee, surveyed 1956

On record in Ochopee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Ochopee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,149 acres in total. 60 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
Natural60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 2001Natural1.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOPS FIRE
11 September 2000Natural2.9 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOCHOPELAKE
11 September 1997Natural60 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHELLS ACRE
7 August 2003Natural1.5 acresBig Cypress National PreserveCOPELAND1
24 August 2003Natural2.5 acresBig Cypress National PreserveS.TURNER
23 August 1993Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveVINCE'STWR
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveMONROE
15 August 2012Natural2.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHALFWAY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier 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 Ochopee: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ochopee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Collier County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ochopee in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2017Tornado (EF1)Ochopee-NWS storm survey determined damage including leaning wood power poles along US 41 and SR 29 were due to a tornado. Time estimated by radar.
July 2005Funnel CloudOchopee-A Coop Observer saw a funnel cloud.
March 2003Tornado (F0)Ochopee-A fire chief photographed a tornado near the intersection of U.S. 41 and SR 29. The tornado did no known damage.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Ochopee-A pilot saw a brief tornado touchdown in the everglades south of I-75.

Every storm recorded in Collier 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
Carnestown3.3 miles10
Lee Cypress4.3 miles10
Copeland4.6 miles10
Everglades City5.0 miles10
Plantation Island5.2 miles11
Chokoloskee6.9 miles11
Jerome7.0 miles10
Weavers Station9.3 miles11

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 OchopeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3348727The 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 295500. 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.