Port Saint John, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cocoa-Rockledge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32927. The Survey maps it on the Sharpes quadrangle. 23,474 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1949 to 1981The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresPort Saint John grew from 12,267 to 23,474 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 | 12,267 | |
| 2020 | 23,474 | +11,207 (+91%) |
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.
- 1949 USGS Sharpes quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1951 USGS Sharpes quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
331 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Port Saint John between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,419 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 57 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 114 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CAROLE AVE (O5) |
| 16 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.3 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALYNA (05) |
| 13 September 1997 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 500 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Port Saint John: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F&W Mines - Hwy 520 Mine | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Kirschenbaum Co. - Ti-Co Pit | Sand | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delespine | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Frontenac | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Bellwood | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Williams Point | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Sharpes | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Courtenay | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Canaveral Acres | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| North Merritt Island | 5.2 miles | 13 |
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 Port Saint John | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q945047 | 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 1867193. 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.






