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River Park, 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. 6,514 people lived here at the 2020 count.

River Park 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 River Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of River Park, surveyed 1948

Population over time

2 figures

River Park grew from 5,222 to 6,514 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
20105,222
20206,514+1,292 (+25%)

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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of River Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,748 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 12 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
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Natural37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning11
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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)
5 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2004Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service1126-SL-FIRE
2 August 1996Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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
Port Saint Lucie1.4 miles16
Indian River Estates4.0 miles16
White City4.2 miles16
Eldred4.2 miles16
Ankona4.2 miles16
Collins Park Estates4.3 miles16
Carlton4.5 miles15
Walton4.9 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 River ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2586312The 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 308096. 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.