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Weston, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Davie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33327. The Survey maps it on the Cooper City SW quadrangle. 68,107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Weston within Broward 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 Weston, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Weston, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Weston grew from 65,333 to 68,107 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
201065,333
202068,107+2,774 (+4%)

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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,247 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 10 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
Natural25
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
6 September 1996Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Natural1,000 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNO NAME ( 06 )
14 September 2015Natural1,600 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMM 35 (06)
11 September 1992Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service26TH ST (06)
9 August 2003Natural40 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE FENDER FIRE
7 August 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWESTON 36 ( 06 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Weston: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Griffin Brothers PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Task PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arvida LakeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ponderosa PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
March 1995Thunderstorm WindWeston$80,000A severe thunderstorm damaged bleachers, tents and exhibits at Weston Hills Country Club causing $80,000 damage, a day prior to the Honda Classic PGA golf tournament.

Every storm recorded in Broward 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
Rolling Oaks3.7 miles14
Andytown3.8 miles13
Southwest Ranches4.4 miles15
Melalevca Isles4.6 miles15
Sunshine Ranches5.4 miles15
Plantation Acres5.8 miles14
Sunshine Acres6.3 miles15
Pine Island Ridge6.7 miles15

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 WestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990644The 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 1761599. 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.