BlockBal Harbor Beach, Florida
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Miami Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33154. It lies near Sandspur Island. The Survey maps it on the North Miami OE E quadrangle.
Then and now
1956 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
5 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bal Harbor Beach between 1992 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | OLETA (13) |
| 11 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | OLETA |
| 5 February 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | FIU (13) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bal Harbour | 0.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bay Harbor Islands | 0.6 miles | 15 | |
| Surfside | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Indian Creek Village | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Keystone Islands | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Interama | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| San Souci Estates | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Normandy Shores | 2.6 miles | 16 |
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 Q122558154 | 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 2078834. 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.