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Acline, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Punta Gorda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33950. It stands on North Prong Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Punta Gorda quadrangle.

Acline within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Acline, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Acline, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

407 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 407 fires within 5 miles of Acline between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,117 acres in total. 104 started naturally. 23 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
Natural104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Equipment and vehicle use56
Misuse of fire by a minor45
Debris and open burning37
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Recreation and ceremony29
Arson/incendiarism23
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2020Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOTGUN ROAD (08)
28 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePANATELLA TREADMILL 2 (08)
28 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePANATELLA TREADMILL (08)
24 September 2016Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOTGUN (08)
23 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGASPARILLA (08)
23 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Acline: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Apac-Florida - Viercocken PitSandProducer
Earthsource - Earthsource's MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hendrickson Seashell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 31CalciumProducer
Rigby Airport PitCalciumProducer
Route 31 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sunland Paving Co. - Sunland Pelican PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acline in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindAcline$15,000Thirteen mobile homes sustained wind damage in the River Haven Mobile Home Park. Damage consisted of siding being torn off of carports and porch coverings being removed from homes.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAcline$1,000A tree was reported down near Tamiami Trail and Oil Well Road.
July 2024Funnel CloudAcline-Public shared images of a funnel cloud east of Interstate 75 in the Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area.
August 2022Tornado (EFU)Acline-Broadcast media relayed video of weak landspout tornado briefly touching down near Interstate 75 and Jones Loop Road interchange near Charlotte Park.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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
Riviera Lagoons0.7 miles13
Burnt Store Lakes0.8 miles13
Blue Heron Pines1.2 miles13
South Punta Gorda Heights1.9 miles12
Aqui Esta2.2 miles13
Charlotte Park2.7 miles13
Tropical Gulf Acres3.2 miles12
Punta Gorda3.5 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122561874The 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 277665. 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.