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Delray Gardens, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Boynton Beach-Delray Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33445. The Survey maps it on the Delray Beach quadrangle.

Delray Gardens within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1950 to 1987

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.

Topographic sheet of Delray Gardens, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Delray Gardens, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Delray Gardens between 1999 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMORIKAMI FIRE
24 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMK2 (50)
16 March 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE SUNNYBROOKE COMMAND
27 February 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 February 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2020-18-0052- CATSBY STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach 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 Delray Gardens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Bell Engineering - Bell Farms PitSandProducer

Every working 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
Dunes Road0.4 miles17
High Point1.0 miles16
Franwood Pines1.2 miles17
Delray Shores1.5 miles17
Golf1.5 miles17
Kingsland1.5 miles17
Villages of Oriole2.0 miles16
County Club Acres2.1 miles16

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 Q122566475The 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 281487. 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.