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Palmona Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the North Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33903. It stands on Yellow Fever Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers NW quadrangle. 1,240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Palmona Park 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 Palmona Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Palmona Park, surveyed 1956

On record in Palmona Park

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Palmona Park fell from 1,353 to 1,240 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
20001,353
20101,146-207 (-15%)
20201,240+94 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

390 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Palmona Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,933 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 32 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
Railroad operations and maintenance131
Natural80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use43
Arson/incendiarism32
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Recreation and ceremony23
Debris and open burning7
Fireworks2
Other causes1
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 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEL (36)
8 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBARN (36)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Palmona Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Colonial Dolomite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Salvista1.5 miles14
North Fort Myers1.6 miles14
Bayshore Manor1.8 miles14
Suncoast Estates2.3 miles14
Poinciana Estates2.6 miles14
Lochmoor Waterway Estates3.0 miles14
Palm and Pine Park3.2 miles14
Waterway Estates3.2 miles14

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 Palmona ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q585324The 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 304120. 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.