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Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33905. It lies near Midway Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers quadrangle.

Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park, surveyed 1956

On record in Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

368 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 368 fires within 5 miles of Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,404 acres in total. 88 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
Railroad operations and maintenance108
Natural88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony21
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking3
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2017Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWESTGATE (36)
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/0506-NOV
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/THE HUNTER FIRE
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE (36)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Colonial Dolomite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edison PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Triple C PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Tice0.4 miles14
Morse Shores0.6 miles14
Palm and Pine Park2.6 miles14
Bayshore2.7 miles14
Poinciana Estates2.8 miles14
Bayshore Manor3.0 miles14
Salvista3.2 miles14
Verandah3.8 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 Q122570598The 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 2449037. 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.