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Stuart, Florida

17 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 34994. It stands on Frazier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palm City quadrangle. 17,425 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

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Stuart 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 Stuart, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Stuart, surveyed 1948

On record in Stuart

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Stuart grew from 15,593 to 17,425 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
201015,593
202017,425+1,832 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Stuart between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,302 acres in total. 48 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
Natural48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
4 September 2012Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEVANS RD. (43)
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43)
27 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) MEADOWS (509)
7 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBERRY (43)
30 August 2013Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGH MEADOWS (43)
2 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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 Stuart: 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

Storms near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stuart in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1997LightningStuart1 hurtLightning struck a boater near Stuart in the Indian River Lagoon. He was knocked unconscious and fell into the water. He was pulled back on the boat and revived by his wife.
August 2001Flash FloodStuart$1,500,000Rains associated with distant Tropical Storm Barry in the Gulf of Mexico produced flooding across much of Martin County. About 13 inches of rain fell in the area between midnight and late morning on August 2nd. The most serious flooding occurred in Stuart, Port Salerno and Palm City. Over 300 homes received some water damage. Major damage was reported in 63 homes and 6 mobile homes.
April 1993Tornado (F0)Stuart$50,000A small tornado briefly touched down at the intersection of Dixie Highway and Indian Street in Stuart damaging the roof of a U-Haul rental building, moving a U-Haul trailer 200 yards, and blew around signs and garbage cans.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Stuart$20,000An F0 tornado briefly touched down in the Rocky Point area near Stuart damaging solar panels and roofs.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindStuart$2,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a carport, fence and metal shed, and blew down large tree limbs near Stuart.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindStuart$1,000A member of the public reported a medium-sized tree had fallen over onto a shed in Stuart, one mile west-northwest of Stuart Witham Airport.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindStuart$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines and broke windows in Stuart.
October 2020Heavy RainStuart-CoCoRaHS, mesonet and Cooperative observer reports, along with reports from SKYWARN spotters and Emergency Management officials indicated that rainfall totals reached ten to over twenty inches between the early morning hours of October 1 and the early evening of October 4. Observations over twelve inches were received from seven recording stations within Hobe Sound and Stuart (highest value was from a Weather Underground mesonet site in Stuart; 20.63 inches).
May 2013HailStuart-A spotter observed nickel sized hail in Stuart.
March 2008HailStuart-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail south of Stuart.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindStuart-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees 10 miles west of Stuart. A home weather station recorded a wind gust to 61 mph.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindStuart-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in the Stuart area.
November 1998Flash FloodStuart-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Mitch produced some flooding in eastern Martin County. Many roadways were covered with 10 inches of water and four houses flooded.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindStuart-A Skywarn spotter measured winds of 51 knots in Stuart.
March 2003HailStuart-no account filed
May 2000HailStuart-no account filed
May 2000HailStuart-no account filed
August 1999WaterspoutStuart-no account filed
April 1999HailStuart-no account filed
July 1997HailStuart-no account filed
January 1997WaterspoutStuart-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindStuart-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudStuart-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudStuart-no account filed
May 1996HailStuart-no account filed

Every storm 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
Lighthouse Point1.1 miles17
North River Shores1.6 miles17
Rio1.7 miles16
Snug Harbor1.7 miles16
Palm Lake Park1.9 miles17
Palm City2.2 miles17
Sewall's Point2.7 miles16
Golden Gate3.1 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 StuartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988744The 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 291756. 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.