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Eastern Shores, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33160. It stands on Oleta River. The Survey maps it on the North Miami quadrangle.

Eastern Shores within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eastern Shores, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Eastern Shores, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Eastern Shores between 1992 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA (13)
24 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
15 March 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 February 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIU (13)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade 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
Interama1.1 miles15
Golden Shores1.1 miles15
Ojus1.3 miles15
Sunny Isles Beach1.4 miles8
North Miami Beach1.4 miles15
Aventura1.6 miles15
Sun Haven of Aventura1.7 miles15
Golden Beach2.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282041. 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.