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Eden, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port St. Lucie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34957. It lies near Nettles Island. The Survey maps it on the Eden quadrangle.

Eden within St. Lucie County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eden, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Eden, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Eden between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,142 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 8 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
Natural26
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOLDEN ROD RD(43)
14 August 1996Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2012Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAVANNAH RD. (43)
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE PINES (43)
31 July 1998Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie 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 Eden: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jensen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eden in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2020Heavy RainEden-CoCoRaHS, mesonet and Cooperative observer reports, along with reports from SKYWARN spotters and Emergency Management officials indicated that rainfall totals reached eight to nearly fifteen inches between the early morning hours of October 1 and the early evening of October 4. Observations over twelve inches were received from three recording stations within Jensen Beach, Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce (highest value was from a Weather Underground mesonet site in Ft. Pierce; 14.88 inches).

Every storm recorded in St. Lucie 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
Walton1.8 miles16
Waveland2.0 miles15
Eldred4.2 miles16
Ankona4.7 miles16
Port Saint Lucie5.8 miles16
River Park6.1 miles16
Indian River Estates7.0 miles16
Collins Park Estates7.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307944. 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.