Alpine, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Avon Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33825. The Survey maps it on the Lake Arbuckle quadrangle.

Alpine within Highlands County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alpine, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Alpine, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1952 USGS Lake Arbuckle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Bartow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Alpine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,751 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning	59
Railroad operations and maintenance	53
Natural	26
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	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
3 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(HI) ILLEAGAL BURN (1498)
26 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BLUE STAR (28)
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	AVON BLVD(28)
20 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
14 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	(HI) (1224)
17 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WEST DAIRY (53)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Highland Lakes

Every fire recorded in Highlands 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
Highland Lakes	2.4 miles	16
Avon Park	3.0 miles	15
Avon Park Lakes	3.8 miles	16
Lakemont	6.3 miles	15
Sebring Shores	6.9 miles	15
Sebring	9.6 miles	14
De Soto City	13.6 miles	14
Istokpoga	16.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277816. 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.