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Plantation Island, Florida

11 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. It stands on Halfway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chokoloskee quadrangle. 119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Plantation Island 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 Plantation Island, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Plantation Island, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Plantation Island fell from 163 to 119 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.

YearPeople Change
2010163
2020119-44 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Plantation Island between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1,196 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 4 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
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Firearms and explosives use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
11 September 2000Natural2.9 acresBig Cypress National PreserveOCHOPELAKE
11 September 1997Natural60 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHELLS ACRE
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveMONROE
15 August 2012Natural2.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHALFWAY CREEK
12 August 2005Natural42 acresEverglades National ParkPLANT'N 2
9 July 1997Natural5.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveSEAGRAPE
16 July 2005Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreservePLANTATION
13 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveHALF CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Everglades City1.3 miles10
Chokoloskee2.2 miles11
Carnestown4.6 miles10
Ochopee5.2 miles10
Fakahatchee6.8 miles10
Lee Cypress6.9 miles10
Copeland7.6 miles10
Weavers Station8.8 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 Plantation IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2571686The 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 289027. 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.