Delta, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Royal Palm Beach-West Jupiter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33412. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle.

Delta within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1945 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delta, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Delta, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1945 USGS Delta quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Delta quadrangle1:24000
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
1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,723 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 3 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	84
Railroad operations and maintenance	24
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
24 September 2011	Natural	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	BEELINE (50)
24 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2004	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	218
6 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SLOUGH COMMD.
3 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 August 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
The Acreage	5.0 miles	12
Palm Beach Gardens	5.2 miles	16
North Palm Beach Heights	5.5 miles	16
West Jupiter Camping Resort	5.7 miles	16
Rood	6.4 miles	16
West Jupiter	6.6 miles	16
Monet	7.1 miles	14
Limestone Creek	7.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294744. 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.