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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.

Port Salerno within Martin 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 Salerno, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Port Salerno, surveyed 1948

Population over time

2 figures

Port 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.

YearPeople Change
201010,091
202010,401+310 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

132 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural38
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Fireworks3

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
6 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceST ANDREWS (43)
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2012Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEVANS RD. (43)
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43)
7 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
6 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA)-LAKEBOTTOM-1257

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1995Thunderstorm WindPort Salerno1 killedA man drowned after being washed overboard by a large wave generated by thunderstorm winds. GEORGIA

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Coral Gardens0.6 miles16
Golden Gate1.5 miles16
Pinelake Gardens Estates1.8 miles18
Fruita2.0 miles16
Port Sewall3.0 miles16
Seminole Shores3.2 miles16
Sewall's Point3.8 miles16
Palm City3.8 miles17

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 SalernoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2355741The 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.