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Blue Heron Pines, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Punta Gorda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33950. It stands on North Prong Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.

Blue Heron Pines within Charlotte 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 Blue Heron Pines, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Blue Heron Pines, surveyed 1956

Compare 1956 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

428 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of Blue Heron Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,260 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 26 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
Natural112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use59
Misuse of fire by a minor46
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Debris and open burning37
Recreation and ceremony30
Arson/incendiarism26
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2020Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOTGUN ROAD (08)
28 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePANATELLA TREADMILL 2 (08)
28 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePANATELLA TREADMILL (08)
24 September 2016Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOTGUN (08)
23 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGASPARILLA (08)
23 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Blue Heron Pines: 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Apac-Florida - Viercocken PitSandProducer
Hendrickson Seashell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 31CalciumProducer
Rigby Airport PitCalciumProducer
Route 31 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Desrosier Brothers - Oakleaf MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Earthsource - Earthsource's MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Sunland Paving Co. - Sunland Pelican PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
T.A. Forsberg Inc. - Golf Course Bvld. MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Charlotte 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
Riviera Lagoons0.5 miles13
Acline1.2 miles13
South Punta Gorda Heights1.2 miles12
Burnt Store Lakes1.9 miles13
Tropical Gulf Acres2.8 miles12
Aqui Esta3.3 miles13
Charlotte Park3.7 miles13
Punta Gorda4.3 miles13

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 Q122590837The 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 2044328. 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.