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Boca Harbour, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Boca Raton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33487. The Survey maps it on the Delray Beach quadrangle.

Boca Harbour within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1950 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 37 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 Harbour, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Boca Harbour, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Boca Harbour between 2005 and 2010, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach 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 Boca Harbour: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Peanut Island Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

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
Bel Marra0.4 miles17
Caribbean Key0.9 miles17
Yamato1.0 miles17
Highland Beach1.0 miles17
Tropic Isle1.6 miles17
Lake Rogers Isle2.1 miles17
Blue Inlet2.4 miles17
Rainbow Homes2.4 miles17

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 Q122548456The 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 279122. 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.