Chapel Hill, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 37 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1950 1987

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.

• 1950 USGS Delray Beach 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 Delray Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1981 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill between 2000 and 2017, burning about 22 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:

• Country Club Trail
• Golf
• Sun Valley
• Aberdeen
• Boynton Beach
• Hypoluxo

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chapel Hill: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 Palm Beach County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 280302. 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.