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Bean City, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33440. The Survey maps it on the Lake Harbor quadrangle.

Bean City within Palm Beach 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 Bean City, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Bean City, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Bean City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePAWN LAKE FIRE
4 June 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 May 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bean City: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rabbit Island Rock DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Pit #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
South Bay Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
South Bay2.7 miles12
Lake Harbor2.9 miles11
Dahlberg3.4 miles12
Watson3.7 miles11
Belle Glade Camp4.5 miles12
Belle Glade5.0 miles12
Okeelanta5.7 miles11
Mott5.7 miles11

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 Q122568660The 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 278276. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.