Allenhurst, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Space Center census division. The Survey maps it on the Mims quadrangle.

Allenhurst within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Allenhurst, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Allenhurst, surveyed 1949

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.

1949 USGS Mims quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Mims quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Titusville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Allenhurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,716 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 20 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
Natural	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Arson/incendiarism	20
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	MANATEE NO
8 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	406
12 August 2005	Natural	6.0 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	FISH LIPS
11 August 1992	Natural	2.0 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	MUDSHIRT
10 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	FISHERMAN
7 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	CEDARTREE
5 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	POWERLINE
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	HAULOVERNW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dummit Grove	2.5 miles	14
Shiloh	4.5 miles	14
Wiley	5.8 miles	13
Turnbull	5.9 miles	13
Holiday Village Travel Park	6.2 miles	13
East Mims	6.6 miles	13
Mims	6.8 miles	13
Scottsmoor	6.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295090. 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.