Port Saint Lucie, Florida
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port St. Lucie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34983. The Survey maps it on the Ankona quadrangle. 204,851 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1948 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 40 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 figuresPort Saint Lucie grew from 88,454 to 204,851 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 | 88,454 | |
| 2010 | 164,603 | +76,149 (+86%) |
| 2020 | 204,851 | +40,248 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1948 USGS Ankona quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Ankona quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
146 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Port Saint Lucie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,679 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 10 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 | 37 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2014 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | EASY STREET (56) |
| 16 September 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | MELVILLE (56) |
| 5 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CROSSTOWN ON RAMP(56) |
| 21 August 1994 | Natural | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 August 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | KITTERMAN (56) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Park | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Eldred | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Walton | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Ankona | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Carlton | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Indian River Estates | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| White City | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Collins Park Estates | 5.6 miles | 16 |
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 Lucie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q667749 | 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 308089. 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.







