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San Carlos Park, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Bonita Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33967. The Survey maps it on the Estero quadrangle. 18,563 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

San Carlos Park within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of San Carlos Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of San Carlos Park, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

San Carlos Park grew from 16,317 to 18,563 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
200016,317
201016,824+507 (+3%)
202018,563+1,739 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of San Carlos Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,648 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 13 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
Natural85
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
20 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2007Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Service36/CROSS ROAD FIRE
15 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service11/ TECO ARENA FIRE
10 September 1997Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2018Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHAUL RD (36)
4 August 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORRECTION (36)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of San Carlos Park: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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
Youngquist Brothers Rock - Corkscrew WoodsSandProducer
Estero QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fl Rock Ind.,Inc.(Ft. Myers Plant)Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Fort Meyers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stephens Const. Mat. ContractorsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Three Oaks0.4 miles15
Miromar Lakes1.4 miles15
Estero2.0 miles15
Forest Island Park3.6 miles15
Coconut5.1 miles15
Renaissance5.6 miles14
Biggar6.0 miles15
Council6.3 miles15

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 San Carlos ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443708The 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 290476. 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.