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Cooglers Beach, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hernando Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34607. It lies near Rock Island. The Survey maps it on the Bayport quadrangle.

Cooglers Beach within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cooglers Beach, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Cooglers Beach, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Cooglers Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,562 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 13 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
Natural31
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27-GOLD STAR-0954
4 September 2001Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUSH MILLS (27)
9 August 1993Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1998Natural70 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cooglers Beach: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hernando Sandpit & Wood Facility - Hernando SandpitSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hernando 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
Bayport0.7 miles16
Palm Grove Colony1.3 miles16
Pine Island1.5 miles16
Weeki Wachee Gardens1.7 miles16
Weekiwachee Gardens4.2 miles14
Berkeley4.8 miles14
Weeki Wachee4.9 miles14
Weeki Wachee Acres5.6 miles15

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 Q122569967The 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 295216. 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.