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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.

Port Saint Lucie within St. Lucie County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Port Saint Lucie, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Port Saint Lucie, surveyed 1948

Population over time

3 figures

Port 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.

YearPeople Change
200088,454
2010164,603+76,149 (+86%)
2020204,851+40,248 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

146 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural37
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2014Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEASY STREET (56)
16 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMELVILLE (56)
5 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCROSSTOWN ON RAMP(56)
21 August 1994Natural18 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1996Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2020Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKITTERMAN (56)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie 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
River Park1.4 miles16
Eldred5.0 miles16
Walton5.0 miles16
Ankona5.1 miles16
Carlton5.1 miles15
Indian River Estates5.3 miles16
White City5.6 miles16
Collins Park Estates5.6 miles16

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 LucieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q667749The 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.