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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.

Pine Island Center within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Pine Island Center, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Pine Island Center, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Pine 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,721
20101,854+133 (+8%)
20201,942+88 (+5%)

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

45 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural15
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest Service2005-17-0389
6 July 2014Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHREE BRUSH (36)
6 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/TWO PILES BURNING FIRE
24 July 2014Natural90 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRED MANGO (36)
22 July 1994Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 July 1994Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Matlacha2.7 miles12
Flamingo Bay3.0 miles14
Matlacha Isles3.2 miles12
Pineland3.7 miles14
Matlacha Shores4.0 miles12
Upper Captiva5.5 miles14
Cayo Costa5.7 miles14
Bokeelia6.7 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 Pine Island CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2093034The 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.