Bluefield, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Indiantown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34974. The Survey maps it on the Bluefield quadrangle.

Bluefield within Martin County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bluefield, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Bluefield, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1953 USGS Bluefield quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Okeechobee 4 NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Bluefield between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,859 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	61
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
14 September 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	RANCH (43)
3 August 1996	Natural	200 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 August 2018	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	POWERLINE (56)
23 August 2005	Natural	5.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	SL-GET FRESH FIRE-1116
12 August 2006	Natural	32 acres	Florida Forest Service	(MA) WALPOLE (1310)
1 August 2011	Natural	16 acres	Florida Forest Service	BLUEFIELD (56)
5 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	DEER RUN (43)
30 July 2011	Natural	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	HAY FIRE (43)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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
Marcy	5.3 miles	15
Zana	5.8 miles	16
Indiantown	13.1 miles	15
Bessemer	13.3 miles	16
Port Mayaca	14.8 miles	10
Lighthouse Point	16.6 miles	17
North River Shores	16.9 miles	17
Arundel	17.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307444. 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.