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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.

Port Saint John within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

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 Port Saint John, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Port Saint John, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Port 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.

YearPeople Change
201012,267
202023,474+11,207 (+91%)

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

331 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural114
Arson/incendiarism57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning11
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2002Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCAROLE AVE (O5)
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALYNA (05)
13 September 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2000Natural500 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
F&W Mines - Hwy 520 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Kirschenbaum Co. - Ti-Co PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Brevard 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
Delespine1.1 miles14
Frontenac1.7 miles14
Bellwood1.9 miles14
Williams Point2.4 miles14
Sharpes3.4 miles14
Courtenay4.4 miles13
Canaveral Acres4.8 miles14
North Merritt Island5.2 miles13

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 JohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q945047The 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.