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Eau Gallie, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Melbourne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32935. It stands on Elbow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eau Gallie quadrangle.

Eau Gallie within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eau Gallie, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Eau Gallie, surveyed 1949

On record in Eau Gallie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Eau Gallie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use39
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural19
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUGAR PINE (5)
22 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWER LINE (05)
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSARNO (05)
21 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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 Eau Gallie: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Melbourne-Palm Bay PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerStaurolite, Kyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Brevard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eau Gallie in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 tornado. 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
June 2024Tornado (EF0)Eau Gallie-Surveys determined that a brief EF-0 tornado occurred shortly before 6:00 PM EDT, which was on the ground for approximately 4 minutes. The preliminary width of the tornado was 75 yards with a total path length of 1.1 miles.||The tornado touched down near Adams Avenue and moved south-southeast toward Sarno Road. In this area, multiple homes experienced carport, roof, siding, and soffit damage. Several trees were uprooted or partially uprooted, large tree branches|were scattered, and a few power poles were snapped. As the tornado moved south of Sarno Road into the Ixora Park neighborhood, it continued to produce sporadic damage to trees, fences, and collapsed a pool enclosure at one home. The tornado went through a wooded area on the north side of Melbourne Airport affecting trees|and a few hangars before dissipating.

Every storm recorded in Brevard 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
West Eau Gallie2.2 miles15
Tropic2.6 miles12
Indian Harbour Beach2.6 miles12
Canova Beach2.7 miles12
Aurora2.9 miles15
Sherman Park3.2 miles15
Melbourne3.4 miles13
Mobiland by the Sea3.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Eau GallieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5331447The 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 294332. 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.