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Suncoast Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the North Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33917. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers quadrangle. 4,097 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Suncoast Estates 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 Suncoast Estates, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Suncoast Estates, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Suncoast Estates fell from 4,867 to 4,097 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
20004,867
20104,384-483 (-10%)
20204,097-287 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

448 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 448 fires within 5 miles of Suncoast Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,166 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 30 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
Railroad operations and maintenance145
Natural96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use46
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony27
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Debris and open burning14
Other causes3
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2010Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service08-RAMPS FIRE-0283
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/THE HUNTER FIRE
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEL (36)
8 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2001Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Poinciana Estates1.2 miles14
Salvista2.0 miles14
Slater2.2 miles14
Palmona Park2.3 miles14
Bayshore Manor2.4 miles14
Bayshore2.4 miles14
North Fort Myers3.1 miles14
Tice3.8 miles14

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 Suncoast EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570630The 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 1867213. 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.