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Biggar, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33908. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers SW quadrangle.

Biggar within Lee 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 Biggar, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Biggar, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Biggar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 17 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
Natural24
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 1997Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORRECTION (36)
15 August 1995Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2020Fireworks10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDOMESTIC AVE (36)
3 July 2001Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Biggar: 1 producer. All of them 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
Estero QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Cypress Lake1.3 miles15
Harlem Heights2.0 miles15
Villas2.4 miles14
Forest Island Park2.6 miles15
McGregor3.0 miles15
Fort Myers Villas3.2 miles14
Aspen Indian Creek Park3.4 miles14
Whiskey Creek3.6 miles15

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 Q122558212The 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 294684. 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.