Broward Gardens, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1949 1994

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.

• 1949 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Broward Gardens between 1993 and 2011, burning about 30 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Broadview Park
• Hacienda Village
• Playland Isles
• Davie
• Fern Crest Village
• Playland Village

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Broward Gardens: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Broward County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 279457. 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.