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Bryant, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33438. The Survey maps it on the Bryant quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Bryant 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 Bryant, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Bryant, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bryant between 1992 and 2012, burning about 65 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.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
27 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROADSIDE ( 50 )
5 June 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service842
24 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGLADES FIRE
27 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOWER PLANT FIRE
12 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceONE STOP FIRE

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Canal Point1.1 miles10
Pelican Lake2.7 miles10
Pahokee3.3 miles10
Padgett Island3.5 miles10
Fremd Village3.5 miles10
Sand Cut4.4 miles10
Cardwell6.2 miles10
Runyon8.5 miles12

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 BryantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4980524The 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 279532. 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.