Pine Castle, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Orlando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32809. It lies near Oak Island. The Survey maps it on the Pine Castle quadrangle. 11,122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1953 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1953 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresPine Castle grew from 10,805 to 11,122 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,805 | |
| 2020 | 11,122 | +317 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1953 USGS Pine Castle quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
74 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Pine Castle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,932 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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 maintenance | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.8 acres | Florida Forest Service | PLAYGROUND (4) |
| 7 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 1999 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | OFFICE (48) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Castle in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2018 | Hail | Pine Castle | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail at the 4300 block of John Young Parkway. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Castle | - | A tree fell on a home in the Conway area of Orlando as a severe thunderstorm impacted the area. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Pine Castle | - | Orlando media relayed a public report of nickel sized hail falling in Pine Castle as a strong thunderstorm impacted the area. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pine Castle | - | An Orlando media outlet reported quarter sized hail in Pine Castle and Oak Ridge. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pine Castle | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in the Orlando area. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Castle | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged a gas station awning damaging a truck north of Kissimmee. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Pine Castle | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewood | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Belle Isle | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Nela Isle Annex (historical) | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Canal Addition (historical) | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| South Lake Conway Villa | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Conway Park (historical) | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sky Lake | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Holden Heights | 2.0 miles | 12 |
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 Pine Castle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1845421 | 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 288827. 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.
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.





