Pine Island Center, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33922. It lies near Big Panther Key. The Survey maps it on the Pine Island Center quadrangle. 1,942 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1956 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 25 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 figuresPine Island Center grew from 1,721 to 1,942 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 | 1,721 | |
| 2010 | 1,854 | +133 (+8%) |
| 2020 | 1,942 | +88 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1956 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pine Island Center quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
45 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Pine Island Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 613 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 1 was 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 | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2005-17-0389 |
| 6 July 2014 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | THREE BRUSH (36) |
| 6 July 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 36/TWO PILES BURNING FIRE |
| 24 July 2014 | Natural | 90 acres | Florida Forest Service | RED MANGO (36) |
| 22 July 1994 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 1994 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matlacha | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Flamingo Bay | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Matlacha Isles | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Pineland | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Matlacha Shores | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Upper Captiva | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Cayo Costa | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Bokeelia | 6.7 miles | 14 |
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 Island Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2093034 | 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 288876. 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.






