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Cummings, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32958. It lies near Pauls Island. The Survey maps it on the Sebastian quadrangle.

Cummings within Indian River County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cummings, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Cummings, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Cummings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,668 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 12 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
Natural40
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2001Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service140
21 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceARMADILLO (31)
5 August 2005Natural60 acresFlorida Forest ServiceIR-MAIN STREET FIRE-1033
30 August 2011Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEEP DITCH (31)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cummings: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Indian River County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cummings in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCummings$500A cluster of thunderstorms moved onshore from the Atlantic and spread inland, affecting the town of Sebastian. On Gilbert Street, some homes lost shingles and a fence was blown town. Nearby on Canal Circle, a home experienced minor roof damage and several surrounding homes lost some shingles.
April 2022HailCummings-The public reported quarter sized hail on Thornhill Lane in Sebastian.

Every storm recorded in Indian River 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
Sebastian1.4 miles17
North Beach2.6 miles17
Orchid2.9 miles17
Roseland3.1 miles17
Wabasso3.7 miles19
Wabasso Beach4.0 miles17
Vero Lake Estates5.0 miles16
Brookside5.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295231. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.