Half of North Fort Myers’ homes were built after 1986
More historic than 10% of U.S. towns · #350 of 638 in Florida. What drives it
Most of North Fort Myers was built recently: 0.7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1958 on, and the census since 1970.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, North Fort Myers is more historic than 10% of U.S. towns, #350 of 638 in Florida. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of North Fort Myers’ overall grade.
Few Florida towns list much on the Register (a typical Florida town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so North Fort Myers’ 0.0 sits below most of its state (33% of Florida towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share (±0.3 points) is firm at this size.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about North Fort Myers’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
New Prospect
1899–1904
Bay Shore
1925–1942
Slater
1926–1947
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
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Gone or out of use
Bayshore Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside North Fort Myers
New Prospect
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Start North Fort Myers’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how North Fort Myers’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of North Fort Myers yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
North Fort Myers is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 42,719 at the 2020 census, up from 39,407 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 39,407 to 42,719 (+8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
North Fort Myers, 1899 to 1992
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Fort Myers. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1958Fort Myers NW sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of North Fort Myers.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewCoral Cottages Motel, 1980
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on North Fort Myers’ page.
North Fort Myers is more historic than 10% of U.S. towns, #350 of 638 in Florida. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in North Fort Myers?
0.7% of North Fort Myers’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 0.6% for a Florida town; the median home was built in 1986.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (8), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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