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Boca Del Mar, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Boca Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33433. The Survey maps it on the West Dixie Bend quadrangle. 21,832 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Boca Del Mar 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 Boca Del Mar, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Boca Del Mar, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Boca Del Mar between 2005 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1
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
26 June 2012Smoking3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUGAR SAND PARK ( 50 )
12 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTENT POLE (6)
12 May 2008Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALMOST FIRE
9 April 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGREEN ROAD (06)
7 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOCA COMMAND
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLYNN UNIVERSITY FIRE
30 April 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGLADES COMMAND
26 April 2012Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHILLSBORO PINES ( 06 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Boca Del Mar: 8 producers, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Silica, 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
101 Sand PitSilicaProducer
Cypress Head PitSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Griffin Brothers - Rock Quarry Number 2SandProducer
Sawgrass Mining - Sawgrass PitSandProducer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pompand PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deerfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Boca Pointe1.1 miles16
Paradise Palms1.2 miles16
Sandalfoot Cove2.2 miles16
Floresta2.4 miles17
Royal Oak Hills2.5 miles17
Boca West2.5 miles16
Hamptons at Boca Raton3.3 miles16
University Park3.5 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on Boca Del MarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q888940The 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 1867116. 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.