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Solana, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Punta Gorda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33950. It stands on Broad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Punta Gorda quadrangle. 671 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Solana 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 Solana, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Solana, surveyed 1956

On record in Solana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Solana fell from 742 to 671 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
2010742
2020671-71 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

357 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 357 fires within 5 miles of Solana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,317 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 21 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
Natural74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use50
Debris and open burning45
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony14
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-SABLEWOOD FIRE-0425
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-FARNHAM FIRE-0419
18 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePHEASANT BLVD (08)
7 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Solana: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Apac-Florida - Viercocken PitSandProducer
Hendrickson Seashell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 31CalciumProducer
Rigby Airport PitCalciumProducer
Route 31 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Desrosier Brothers - Oakleaf MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Sunland Paving Co. - Sunland Pelican PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
T.A. Forsberg Inc. - Golf Course Bvld. MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solana in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSolana-ASOS site KPGD Punta Gorda Airport reported a 58 mph wind gust.

Every storm 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
Tee and Green Estates1.3 miles13
Punta Gorda1.6 miles13
Harbor View1.7 miles13
Fishermens Village2.3 miles13
Charlotte Harbor2.3 miles13
Cleveland2.4 miles13
Charlotte Park3.0 miles13
Aqui Esta3.0 miles13

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 SolanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2294996The 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 291322. 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.

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.