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Basswood Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Okeechobee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34972. The Survey maps it on the Taylor Creek SE quadrangle.

Basswood Estates within Okeechobee 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 Basswood Estates, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Basswood Estates, surveyed 1953

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

382 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Basswood Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,340 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 22 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 maintenance82
Natural65
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Equipment and vehicle use30
Arson/incendiarism22
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking4
Fireworks4
Other causes2

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
7 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSMOKE HOUSE (47)
29 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2009Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(OK) ORLANDO FIRE (710)
24 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-16-1280
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okeechobee 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
Whispering Pines0.9 miles14
Barber Quarters2.0 miles14
Okeechobee2.8 miles15
Cypress Quarters2.9 miles14
Mildred4.0 miles13
Dixie Ranch Acres4.1 miles13
Taylor Creek5.6 miles15
Sherman7.1 miles15

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 Q122545192The 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 278170. 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.