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Bairs Den, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Placid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33852. The Survey maps it on the Childs quadrangle.

Bairs Den within Highlands County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bairs Den, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bairs Den, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Bairs Den between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,382 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 37 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 maintenance91
Debris and open burning65
Natural39
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10

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
3 September 2000Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service1285-HI CO-FIRE-HWY 70W
19 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMYER ROAD (28)
17 September 2005Debris and open burning3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHI-HUMMER FIRE-1193
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHI-LAKE MIRROR FIRE & NOV-1180
3 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Childs0.9 miles13
Bear Hollow2.1 miles13
Archbold2.2 miles13
Parker Island3.0 miles13
Hicoria4.1 miles13
Placid Lakes4.7 miles13
Lake Placid6.1 miles14
Highlands Park Estates6.6 miles14

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 Q122549338The 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 294663. 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.