Port Salerno, Florida
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port Salerno-Hobe Sound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34997. It stands on Manatee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucie Inlet quadrangle. 10,401 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 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
2 figuresPort Salerno grew from 10,091 to 10,401 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 | 10,091 | |
| 2020 | 10,401 | +310 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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 St Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS St. Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS St. Lucie Inlet 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
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Port Salerno between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,704 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 17 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 | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ST ANDREWS (43) |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2012 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | EVANS RD. (43) |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2015 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | INDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43) |
| 7 August 2010 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452) |
| 6 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (MA)-LAKEBOTTOM-1257 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Salerno in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Salerno | 1 killed | A man drowned after being washed overboard by a large wave generated by thunderstorm winds. GEORGIA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coral Gardens | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Golden Gate | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Pinelake Gardens Estates | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Fruita | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Port Sewall | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Seminole Shores | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Sewall's Point | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Palm City | 3.8 miles | 17 |
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 Salerno | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2355741 | 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 289239. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.








