Browns Farm, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33430. The Survey maps it on the Shawano quadrangle.

Browns Farm within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Browns Farm, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Browns Farm, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

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
1970 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Browns Farm between 1994 and 2018, burning about 653 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
25 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 August 2011	Natural	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	PUMP HOUSE (50)
7 July 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 June 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 June 2018	Natural	614 acres	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	LONE BIRD
21 June 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	CHARLIE
19 June 2001	Natural	10 acres	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	CDNOFIRE
15 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shawano	0.5 miles	11
Sixmile Bend	6.7 miles	10
Ninemile Bend	8.1 miles	10
Okeelanta	10.9 miles	11
Twentymile Bend	11.0 miles	11
Belle Glade Camp	11.0 miles	12
Belle Glade	11.7 miles	12
Dahlberg	12.3 miles	12

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 Q122566621

The 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 299937. 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.