Beacon Lakes, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1943 1998

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.

• 1943 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:25000
• 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Beacon Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 679 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 41 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Beacon Square
• Elfers
• Gulf Harbors
• Anclote
• Forest Hills
• Holiday

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 297363. 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.