City in Florida, United States
Punta Gorda
(
; English:
Fat Point
)
[5]
is a city located in Southwest Florida and is the
county seat
of
Charlotte County, Florida
, United States.
[6]
As of the
2020 U.S. Census
the city had a population of 19,471, up from 16,641 at the 2010 census. Punta Gorda is the principal city of the
Punta Gorda, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area
, part of the
North Port-Bradenton Florida Combined Statistical Area
.
[7]
Punta Gorda was the scene of massive destruction after
Charley
, a Category 4
hurricane
, came through the city on August 13, 2004. Charley was the strongest tropical system to hit Florida since
Hurricane Andrew
in 1992, and the first hurricane since
Hurricane Donna
in 1960 to make a direct hit on Florida's southwest coast.
[8]
In the years following the storm, buildings were restored or built to hurricane-resistant building codes. The new buildings, restorations and amenities concurrently preserved the city's past while showcasing newer facilities. During this time, Laishley Park Municipal Marina was built and the
Harborwalk
, Linear Park and various trails were created throughout the city for bicycle and pedestrian traffic.
[9]
History
[
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]
Early history
[
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Before the arrival of European explorers and settlers, the region centered on present-day Punta Gorda was home to the
Calusa
people.
[10]
The name
Punta Gorda
("Fat Point") has been on maps at least since 1851, referring to a point of land that juts into
Charlotte Harbor
, an estuary off the
Gulf of Mexico
. In the late 1800s, white settlers began to arrive in the present-day Punta Gorda area.
[11]
Frederick and Jarvis Howard,
Union Army
veterans, homesteaded an area south of the
Peace River
near present-day Punta Gorda about a decade after the
Civil War
. In 1876, James and Josephine Lockhart bought land and built a house on property that is now at the center of the city.
[11]
About two years later, Lockhart sold his claim to James Madison Lanier, a hunter and trapper, who lived there for two years.
[11]
In 1879, a charter for a railroad with termini at Charlotte Harbor and
Lake City, Florida
, was established under the name Gainesville, Ocala, and Charlotte Harbor Railroad. It was taken over by the
Florida Southern Railroad
, which reaffirmed Charlotte Harbor as a terminus in its own charter.
[12]
In 1883, Lanier sold his land to Isaac Trabue, who purchased additional property along the harbor and directed the platting of a town (by Kelly B. Harvey) named Trabue.
[11]
Harvey recorded the plat on February 24, 1885. At the time, Isaac was in Kentucky, and his cousin, John Trabue, was in charge of selling lots. To ensure his development's success, Trabue convinced the Florida Southern Railway to bring its road to his town on the south side of Charlotte Harbor.
[13]
The railroad rolled into Trabue in August 1886, and with it came the first land developers and Southwest Florida's first batch of tourists.
[14]
Punta Gorda became the southernmost stop on the
Florida Southern Railroad
,
[14]
until an extension was built to
Fort Myers
in 1904,
[15]
attracting the industries that propelled its initial growth.
On December 3, 1887, dissatisfied with Trabue's lack of infrastructure development, 34 townspeople met at Hector's Billiard Parlor to discuss
incorporation
. The group voted to incorporate and rename the town after the Spanish name for the point on which it was located, Punta Gorda. Once Punta Gorda was officially incorporated, mayoral elections took place and a council was formed. The first mayor, W. H. Simmons, was elected.
[16]
Phosphate
was discovered on the banks of the Peace River just above Punta Gorda in 1888. Phosphate mined in the Peace River Valley was barged down the Peace River to Punta Gorda and Port
Boca Grande
, where it was loaded onto vessels for worldwide shipment. In 1896, the
Florida Times-Union
reported that phosphate mining was Punta Gorda's chief industry and that Punta Gorda was the world's greatest phosphate shipping point. By 1907, a railroad was built direct to Port Boca Grande, ending the brief phosphate shipping boom from Punta Gorda.
[17]
In 1890, Isaac Trabue appointed the first
postmaster
, Robert Meacham, an
African American
, as a deliberate affront to Kelly B. Harvey and those who had voted to change the name of the town from Trabue to Punta Gorda.
[18]
The
Punta Gorda Herald
was founded by Robert Kirby Seward in 1893 and published weekly during its early years. The newspaper covered such events as rum-running, other smuggling activities, and lawlessness in general.
[19]
It underwent many changes in both ownership and name, and today is known as
The Charlotte Sun Herald
.
[20]
Early Punta Gorda greatly resembled the modern social climate of various classes living together and working together. While the regal Punta Gorda Hotel, at one point partly owned by
Cornelius Vanderbilt
, reflected the upper class, Punta Gorda was a pretty rough town, like most frontier towns. Its location at the end of the railway line spiked the crime rate, resulting in approximately 40 murders between 1890 and 1904.
[21]
This included City Marshal John H. Bowman, who was shot and killed in his front parlor on January 29, 1903, in view of his family.
[21]
20th century
[
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]
In 1925, a
bungalow
was built by Joseph Blanchard, an African American sea captain and fisherman. The
Blanchard House Museum
still stands as a museum, providing education about the history of middle-class African American life in the area.
[22]
Punta Gorda maintained steady growth. Charlotte County was formed in 1921 after
DeSoto County
was split. Also in 1921, the first bridge was constructed connecting Punta Gorda and
Charlotte Harbor
along the brand-new
Tamiami Trail
. This small bridge was replaced by the original
Barron Collier Bridge
in 1931, and then by the current Barron Collier Bridge and
Gilchrist Bridge
crossing the Peace River.
During World War II, a U.S. Army airfield was built in Punta Gorda to train combat air pilots. After the war, the airfield was turned over to Charlotte County.
[23]
Today the old airfield is the
Punta Gorda Airport
, serving both commercial and general aviation.
[24]
Punta Gorda's next intense growth phase started in 1959 with the creation of a neighborhood of canal-front home sites, Punta Gorda Isles, by a trio of entrepreneurs, Al Johns, Bud Cole and Sam Burchers. They laid out 55 miles of canals 100 feet wide and 17 feet deep using dredged sand to raise the level of the canal front land. This gave dry home sites access to the
Charlotte Harbor
and the
Gulf of Mexico
. Johns went on to develop several other communities in Punta Gorda,
[25]
among which were Burnt Store Isles, another waterfront community with golf course, and Seminole Lakes, a
golf course community
. These communities provided waterfront or golf course homes for retirees with access to a downtown with shopping, restaurants, and parks.
In the early 1980s at the site of the old Maud Street Fishing Docks, a new shopping, restaurant and marina complex, Fishermen's Village,
[26]
was constructed that continues to be one of Southwest Florida's primary attractions.
[
according to whom?
]
21st century
[
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]
In 2004, a major hurricane,
Hurricane Charley
, moved through Punta Gorda, damaging many buildings, but also creating an opportunity for revitalization of both the historic downtown and the waterfront. During the first part of the 21st century, Punta Gorda continued to grow and improve, adding a new
Harborwalk
that continues to expand, a linear park that winds through the city, and many new restaurants and neighborhoods.
A replica of the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
was dedicated on November 5, 2016.
[27]
The city also features the
Whispering Giant
statue, a public art sculpture of the face of a Native American man and a Native American woman.
[28]
On September 28, 2022, the Category 4
Hurricane Ian
made landfall in Punta Gorda, resulting in severe damage throughout Florida. Coincidentally, the storm made landfall with the same wind speed (145 mph, 235 km/h) as Hurricane Charley, and its minimum barometric pressure was only one millibar less than Charley's.
Historic sites
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]
There are many historic places in Punta Gorda, including ten on the
National Register of Historic Places
:
Geography
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]
Punta Gorda lies on the south bank of the tidal
Peace River
and the eastern shore of
Charlotte Harbor
, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Unincorporated communities bordering Punta Gorda include
Charlotte Park
(nearly surrounded by the city),
Solana
to the east, and
Charlotte Harbor
to the north, across the Peace River.
Port Charlotte
is west of Punta Gorda's incorporated residential neighborhoods Deep Creek
[29]
and Suncoast Lakes, north of the Peace River.
Harbour Heights
lies east of Punta Gorda's Deep Creek residential neighborhood.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
, the city has an area of 21.0 square miles (54.4 km
2
), of which 15.0 square miles (38.9 km
2
) is land and 6.0 square miles (15.5 km
2
) (28.52%) is water.
[30]
Climate
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]
Climate data for Punta Gorda, Florida (
Punta Gorda Airport
), 1991?2020 normals, extremes 1914–present
|
Month
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Year
|
Record high °F (°C)
|
89
(32)
|
92
(33)
|
95
(35)
|
96
(36)
|
101
(38)
|
101
(38)
|
103
(39)
|
101
(38)
|
98
(37)
|
99
(37)
|
94
(34)
|
96
(36)
|
103
(39)
|
Mean maximum °F (°C)
|
84.1
(28.9)
|
85.9
(29.9)
|
88.0
(31.1)
|
91.2
(32.9)
|
94.7
(34.8)
|
96.0
(35.6)
|
95.6
(35.3)
|
95.6
(35.3)
|
94.2
(34.6)
|
91.6
(33.1)
|
87.9
(31.1)
|
85.4
(29.7)
|
97.0
(36.1)
|
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)
|
75.3
(24.1)
|
78.1
(25.6)
|
81.3
(27.4)
|
85.8
(29.9)
|
90.1
(32.3)
|
91.7
(33.2)
|
92.5
(33.6)
|
92.5
(33.6)
|
90.7
(32.6)
|
87.4
(30.8)
|
81.7
(27.6)
|
77.6
(25.3)
|
85.4
(29.7)
|
Daily mean °F (°C)
|
62.9
(17.2)
|
65.5
(18.6)
|
68.5
(20.3)
|
73.1
(22.8)
|
77.9
(25.5)
|
81.7
(27.6)
|
83.3
(28.5)
|
83.5
(28.6)
|
82.1
(27.8)
|
77.2
(25.1)
|
70.2
(21.2)
|
65.8
(18.8)
|
74.3
(23.5)
|
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)
|
50.5
(10.3)
|
53.0
(11.7)
|
55.7
(13.2)
|
60.5
(15.8)
|
65.6
(18.7)
|
71.8
(22.1)
|
74.1
(23.4)
|
74.5
(23.6)
|
73.4
(23.0)
|
66.9
(19.4)
|
58.8
(14.9)
|
54.1
(12.3)
|
63.2
(17.3)
|
Mean minimum °F (°C)
|
33.8
(1.0)
|
36.2
(2.3)
|
41.1
(5.1)
|
48.6
(9.2)
|
56.8
(13.8)
|
67.2
(19.6)
|
70.7
(21.5)
|
71.2
(21.8)
|
68.8
(20.4)
|
54.6
(12.6)
|
44.6
(7.0)
|
38.1
(3.4)
|
31.6
(?0.2)
|
Record low °F (°C)
|
23
(?5)
|
27
(?3)
|
29
(?2)
|
38
(3)
|
48
(9)
|
57
(14)
|
63
(17)
|
65
(18)
|
61
(16)
|
42
(6)
|
28
(?2)
|
22
(?6)
|
22
(?6)
|
Average
precipitation
inches (mm)
|
2.32
(59)
|
2.47
(63)
|
2.28
(58)
|
2.23
(57)
|
3.26
(83)
|
9.24
(235)
|
8.06
(205)
|
9.11
(231)
|
6.87
(174)
|
3.02
(77)
|
2.12
(54)
|
1.99
(51)
|
52.97
(1,345)
|
Average precipitation days
(≥ 0.01 in)
|
9.3
|
7.6
|
7.6
|
6.9
|
8.7
|
17.0
|
18.9
|
19.5
|
15.5
|
8.8
|
7.2
|
9.3
|
136.3
|
Source 1: NOAA
[31]
[32]
|
Source 2: NWS Tampa Bay
[33]
|
Zoning
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As of October 5, 2017, Punta Gorda has 11 zoning districts, five overlay districts, and three planned development districts. Of the zoning districts, six are designated for residential use, two for commercial use, one for governmental use, and two districts allow mixed use.
[34]
Demographics
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]
Historical population
Census
| Pop.
| Note
| %±
|
1890
| 262
| | ?
|
---|
1900
| 860
| | 228.2%
|
---|
1910
| 1,012
| | 17.7%
|
---|
1920
| 1,295
| | 28.0%
|
---|
1930
| 1,833
| | 41.5%
|
---|
1940
| 1,889
| | 3.1%
|
---|
1950
| 1,915
| | 1.4%
|
---|
1960
| 3,157
| | 64.9%
|
---|
1970
| 3,879
| | 22.9%
|
---|
1980
| 6,797
| | 75.2%
|
---|
1990
| 10,747
| | 58.1%
|
---|
2000
| 14,344
| | 33.5%
|
---|
2010
| 16,641
| | 16.0%
|
---|
2020
| 19,471
| | 17.0%
|
---|
As of the
2020 United States census
, there were 19,471 people, 9,780 households, and 6,383 families residing in the city.
[38]
In 2020, there was an average of 1.99 persons per household. Of that population, 3.6% was under 5 years old, 11.1% were under 18 years old, 50.4% were 65 years and older. 53.6% of the population were female persons. There were 2,446 veterans living in the city and 8.4% of the population were foreign born persons.
In 2020, the owner occupied housing unit rate was 81.2%. The median value of owner-occupied housing units was $377,100. The median gross rent was $1,152. 93.5% of households had a computer and 88.8% of households had a broadband internet subscription. The median household income was $68,923. 9.3% of the population lived below the
poverty threshold
.
In 2020, 96.3% of the population 25 years and older were high school graduates or higher, and 38.4% of the population 25 years and older had a Bachelor's degree or higher.
As of the
2010 United States census
, there were 16,641 people, 8,134 households, and 5,798 families residing in the city.
[39]
Education
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]
Punta Gorda is home to five public schools operated by
Charlotte County Public Schools
:
Charlotte High School
,
Punta Gorda Middle School
,
Sallie Jones Elementary School
, East Elementary School, and the Baker Pre-K Center.
[40]
Good Shepherd Day School
[41]
is Punta Gorda's only private grade school. Florida SouthWestern Collegiate High School
[42]
is a charter school.
Florida SouthWestern State College
's Charlotte Campus is Punta Gorda's institution of higher learning.
Libraries
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]
The Punta Gorda Public Library is in Punta Gorda, and is one of four branches in the Charlotte County Library System. It was established in 1908, making it the oldest branch of the Charlotte County Library System, which was created in 1963.
[43]
The library was initially contained within an Episcopal Church rectory and supervised by the vicar's wife, Theodosia Trout, until 1909.
[43]
The church that first housed this library still stands across the street, under the name Church of the Good Shepherd. The library was eventually moved due to its popularity interfering with church activities.
The Masonic Lodge on Sullivan Street became the library's new home due to its central location and popularity among established Punta Gorda groups and clubs, such as the Fortnightly Club and the Women's Civic Improvement Association.
[43]
The library remained in the lodge until 1928, when a hurricane damaged part of the roof. Many books were destroyed, and the volumes that could be salvaged were moved to the new Women's Club building, where members adopted the library as a project. The library remained at the Women's Club building until land from the Retta Esplanade lot was donated for a new library in 1958.
[43]
In 1973, the City of Punta Gorda donated the land at 424 West Henry Street for a new library.
[43]
This donation was intended for a playground, but with the permission of Mrs. Paschal B. Nobles, who donated the land, construction began for the new library.
On July 22, 1974, the Paschal B. Nobles-Punta Gorda Public Library opened to the public.
[43]
The Punta Gorda Charlotte Library moved to a new, larger site on Shreve Street in 2019. The new library branch has features such as study niches, conference rooms, and an archive reading room.
[44]
Transportation
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]
U.S. Route 41
, the
Tamiami Trail
, runs through the center of the city, leading south 23 miles (37 km) to
Fort Myers
and northwest 30 miles (48 km) to
Venice
. The southern terminus of
U.S. Route 17
is in the center of Punta Gorda; the highway leads northeast 25 miles (40 km) to
Arcadia
and 1,206 miles (1,941 km) to its northern terminus in
Winchester, Virginia
.
Interstate 75
bypasses Punta Gorda to the east, with access via U.S. 17 from Exit 164.
In 2010, over 90% of Punta Gorda commuters traveled by automobile, with about 81% driving alone and 9% carpooling.
[45]
[
failed verification
]
According to the 2015 American Community Survey, about 88% of Punta Gorda commuters traveled by automobile, with about 78% driving alone and 10% carpooling. About 6% worked out of the home, with about 6% of commuters traveling by all other modes of transportation.
[46]
The city last had intercity passenger rail with service by the
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
on the Jacksonville-
Fort Myers
-
Naples
section of pre-Amtrak
Champion
.
[47]
Punta Gorda Airport
has scheduled commercial service by
Allegiant Air
and seasonally by
Sun Country Airlines
.
Notable people
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]
- Mindi Abair
, jazz saxophonist
- Charles P. Bailey (pilot)
, former U.S. Army Air Force officer, Tuskegee Airman
- Roy Boehm
(1924?2008), founder of US Navy SEALS; died in Punta Gorda
- Amanda Carr
, 2016 BMX Olympic competitor
- Jeff Corsaletti
, baseball player with the
Portland Sea Dogs
[48]
- Ellen Dawson
(1900?1967), Scottish-American trade union activist; died in Punta Gorda
[49]
- John Hall
,
NFL
player
- Matt LaPorta
,
Major League Baseball
player
[50]
- Burton Lawless
, NFL player
[51]
- Tommy Murphy
, MLB player
[52]
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