Bereah, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Frostproof census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33841. The Survey maps it on the Bereah quadrangle.

Bereah within Polk County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bereah, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Bereah, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1956 USGS Bereah quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Bartow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Bereah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,955 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 21 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
Debris and open burning	57
Railroad operations and maintenance	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Natural	30
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Arson/incendiarism	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(HI) ILLEAGAL BURN (1498)
15 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 September 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 August 2001	Natural	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	14 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
West Frostproof	5.5 miles	16
Maxcy Quarters	5.6 miles	16
Pittsburg	6.5 miles	16
Neilson	6.7 miles	16
Southern Pines Recreational Vehicle Park	6.9 miles	14
Frostproof	7.7 miles	16
Wolfolk	9.6 miles	15
Fort Meade	11.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294676. 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.