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Ankona, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port St. Lucie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34982. It stands on Big Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ankona quadrangle.

Ankona within St. Lucie County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ankona, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Ankona, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Ankona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,067 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 4 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
Natural28
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

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
5 September 2014Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEASY STREET (56)
3 September 1996Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMELVILLE (56)
7 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2004Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service1126-SL-FIRE
18 August 2020Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKITTERMAN (56)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie 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 Ankona: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Glen Blackburn Trucking - Morlan MineSandProducer
Morgan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ankona in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindAnkona-Weatherflow station XSTL measured a wind gust of 69 knots from the north-northwest.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindAnkona-A Weatherflow site at the Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant (XSTL) measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph. A second gust of 58 mph was measured at 1348LST.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAnkona-Weatherflow site XSTL near the Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph from the southeast.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAnkona-A thunderstorm wind gust to 58 mph was recorded by the St. Lucie County mesonet.

Every storm recorded in St. Lucie 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
Eldred0.5 miles16
Indian River Estates2.5 miles16
Walton3.0 miles16
Collins Park Estates3.2 miles16
White City3.9 miles16
River Park4.2 miles16
Eden4.7 miles15
Port Saint Lucie5.1 miles16

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 Q122558287The 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 307874. 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.