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Tice, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33905. It lies near Midway Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers quadrangle. 4,853 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Tice 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 Tice, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Tice, surveyed 1956

On record in Tice

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Tice grew from 4,538 to 4,853 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
20004,538
20104,470-68 (-1%)
20204,853+383 (+9%)

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

361 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 361 fires within 5 miles of Tice between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,392 acres in total. 88 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
Railroad operations and maintenance102
Natural88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning25
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony20
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/0506-NOV
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/THE HUNTER FIRE
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE (36)
23 August 2000Natural22 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tice: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Colonial Dolomite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edison PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Triple C PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tice in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Tice$25,000Broadcast media pictures and videos showed damage to the|roof and lanai of a mobile home in Tice, near the location of where|a waterspout was photographed around the same time. An investigation|of the damage pictures concluded that an EF-0 briefly touched down and|damaged the mobile home, before lifting back up then touching down|again over the Caloosahatchee River as a waterspout.
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Tice$20,000Lee County Emergency Management reported that 4 businesses along Zip Drive and Corporation Circle in Fort Myers sustained damage along a narrow path. Multiple funnel cloud photographs were also taken in the vicinity, hinting that the damage was likely caused by a brief tornado touchdown. Damage was mostly being partially peeled back, and gutters being ripped off of buildings.
September 2025FloodTice-FDEM relayed report from Lee County EMS and Fire Dispatch of street flooding along Palm Beach Boulevard/State Route 80 near the intersection of Marsh Avenue, rendering all lanes impassable. No reports of disabled or stranded vehicles received.
May 1999HailTice-The public reported dime sized hail through Ft Myers, Florida television station WINK.

Every storm 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
Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park0.4 miles14
Morse Shores1.0 miles14
Palm and Pine Park2.3 miles14
Bayshore Manor2.6 miles14
Poinciana Estates2.7 miles14
Bayshore2.8 miles14
Salvista2.9 miles14
North Fort Myers3.5 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 TiceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570502The 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 292260. 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.