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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Then and now
1948 to 1988The 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.


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
Burn Brae Plantation-Krueger Houselisted 2002
Georges Valentine Shipwreck Sitelisted 2006
Golden Gate Buildinglisted 2017
House of Refuge at Gilbert's Barlisted 1974
Lyric Theatrelisted 1993
Martin County Court House, Oldlisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresStuart 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,593 | |
| 2020 | 17,425 | +1,832 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Palm City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Palm City quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
156 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2012 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | EVANS RD. (43) |
| 3 September 2015 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | INDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43) |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (MA) MEADOWS (509) |
| 7 August 2010 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452) |
| 4 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BERRY (43) |
| 30 August 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HIGH MEADOWS (43) |
| 2 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jensen Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
25 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Lightning | Stuart | 1 hurt | Lightning 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 2001 | Flash Flood | Stuart | $1,500,000 | Rains 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 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Stuart | $50,000 | A 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 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Stuart | $20,000 | An F0 tornado briefly touched down in the Rocky Point area near Stuart damaging solar panels and roofs. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a carport, fence and metal shed, and blew down large tree limbs near Stuart. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | $1,000 | A 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines and broke windows in Stuart. |
| October 2020 | Heavy Rain | Stuart | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Stuart | - | A spotter observed nickel sized hail in Stuart. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Stuart | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail south of Stuart. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees 10 miles west of Stuart. A home weather station recorded a wind gust to 61 mph. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in the Stuart area. |
| November 1998 | Flash Flood | Stuart | - | 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | - | A Skywarn spotter measured winds of 51 knots in Stuart. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Waterspout | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Waterspout | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Stuart | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Stuart | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse Point | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| North River Shores | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Rio | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Snug Harbor | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Palm Lake Park | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Palm City | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Sewall's Point | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Golden Gate | 3.1 miles | 16 |
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 Stuart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q988744 | The 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.







