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Brookside, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fellsmere census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32948. The Survey maps it on the Fellsmere quadrangle.

Brookside within Indian River County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brookside, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Brookside, surveyed 1949

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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Brookside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,042 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 10 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
Natural96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2

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
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFITZROY (31)
18 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceARMADILLO (31)
6 August 2008Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service(IR) OUT OF GAS (0556)
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2001Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brookside: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Indian River 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
Vero Lake Estates2.0 miles16
Fellsmere2.7 miles17
Cummings5.2 miles17
Sebastian5.5 miles17
Roseland5.6 miles17
Wabasso6.3 miles19
Orchid7.1 miles17
North Beach7.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295154. 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.