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Sewall's Point, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stuart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34996. It lies near Pisgah Hill. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucie Inlet quadrangle. 1,991 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Sewall's Point 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 Sewall's Point, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sewall's Point, surveyed 1948

Population over time

2 figures

Sewall's Point fell from 1,996 to 1,991 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
20101,996
20201,991-5 (-0%)

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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Sewall's Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 14 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 minor19
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2

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
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43)
7 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINE (43)
2 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1996Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSEACOAST (43)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sewall's Point: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jensen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Snug Harbor1.0 miles16
Port Sewall1.1 miles16
Seminole Shores2.3 miles16
Rio2.4 miles16
Golden Gate2.7 miles16
Stuart2.7 miles17
Ocean Breeze Park2.7 miles16
Palm Lake Park3.2 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 Sewall's PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2000252The 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 290880. 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.