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Belle Vista Beach, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. Pete Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33706. It lies near Boca Ciega Isle. The Survey maps it on the Pass-a-Grille Beach quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Belle Vista Beach within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belle Vista Beach (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Belle Vista Beach (historical), surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

On record in Belle Vista Beach

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Belle Vista Beach (historical) in 2006, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 26TH STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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
Saint Pete Beach0.5 miles17
Don Ce-Sar Place (historical)0.6 miles17
Bahia Shores1.2 miles17
Point Brittany1.9 miles17
Tierra Verde2.0 miles17
Bayway2.2 miles17
South Pasadena2.5 miles18
Sunset Beach2.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301483. 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.