Canaveral Acres, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cocoa-Rockledge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32926. The Survey maps it on the Sharpes quadrangle.

Canaveral Acres within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canaveral Acres, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Canaveral Acres, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1949 USGS Sharpes quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1951 USGS Sharpes quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

436 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 436 fires within 5 miles of Canaveral Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,338 acres in total. 135 started naturally. 88 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
Natural	135
Arson/incendiarism	88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Railroad operations and maintenance	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Recreation and ceremony	19
Debris and open burning	17
Fireworks	5
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
8 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 September 1997	Natural	350 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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
West Canaveral Groves	2.0 miles	14
Sharpes	4.1 miles	14
City Point	4.3 miles	14
Williams Point	4.4 miles	14
Port Saint John	4.8 miles	14
Frontenac	4.9 miles	14
Cocoa	5.3 miles	13
Delespine	5.9 miles	14

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 Q122595367

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 301168. 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.