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Belvedere Homes, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the West Palm Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33409. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach quadrangle.

Belvedere Homes within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belvedere Homes, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Belvedere Homes, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Belvedere Homes between 1992 and 2018, burning about 648 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2003Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOKEECHOBEE COMMAND
23 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2003Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service47TH ST COMMAND
15 July 2004Natural300 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE WATER CATCHMENT FIRE
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
26 June 2015Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTYLER LAKE ( 50 )
20 June 2011Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJOG ROAD (50)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Belvedere Homes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Okeechobee PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belvedere Homes in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008Thunderstorm WindBelvedere Homes$1,000A severe thunderstorm moved across coastal sections of Palm Beach County and over the Lake Clarke Shores area downing power lines onto Forest Hill Boulevard and also downing a fence.

Every storm 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
West Gate0.5 miles16
Golfview0.9 miles16
Haverhill1.2 miles16
Stacey Street1.4 miles16
Gun Club Estates1.5 miles16
Military Park1.6 miles16
Schall Circle1.6 miles16
Royal Palm Estates1.7 miles14

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 Q122556362The 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 2407574. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.