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Rotonda, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grove City-Rotonda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33947. It stands on Lemon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle. 10,114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Rotonda within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rotonda, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Rotonda, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Rotonda grew from 8,759 to 10,114 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
20108,759
202010,114+1,355 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

369 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Rotonda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,449 acres in total. 146 started naturally. 26 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
Natural146
Equipment and vehicle use78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2001Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2016Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIG CIRCLE (08)
24 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOUNDRY (58)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rotonda: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Handy Phil - Handy Phil PitSandProducer
Quality Mining, Inc. - Rotonda SpringsSandProducer
Rotonda Services Corp. - Rotonda MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Charlotte 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
Rotunda-West1.8 miles12
Cape Haze2.3 miles12
Shaefer2.5 miles12
Grove City2.9 miles12
Sancassa3.6 miles12
Placida3.8 miles12
New Point Comfort4.2 miles12
Manasota Key4.4 miles12

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 RotondaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1022745The 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 289988. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.