Aspen Indian Creek 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 33931. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers Beach quadrangle.

Aspen Indian Creek 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 Aspen Indian Creek Park, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Aspen Indian Creek Park, surveyed 1956

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.

1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fort Myers Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Naples quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Aspen Indian Creek Park between 1992 and 2014, burning about 342 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 6 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	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
4 August 1998	Natural	50 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 July 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 July 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 June 1993	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 June 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 June 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 June 2007	Fireworks	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	36/ THE WINKLER FIRE
23 June 1993	Natural	30 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Truckland	1.5 miles	14
Harlem Heights	1.9 miles	15
Iona	2.4 miles	15
Fort Myers Beach	2.7 miles	14
Biggar	3.4 miles	15
Shell Point Village	3.5 miles	15
Punta Rassa	3.8 miles	13
Cypress Lake	4.0 miles	15

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 Q122594808

The 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 2448149. 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.