Eloise, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1955 1988

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.

• 1955 USGS Eloise quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Bartow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Eloise between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,052 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake Shipp Heights
• Eagle Lake
• Tranquility Park
• Winter Haven
• Cypress Gardens
• Eloise Woods

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eloise in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Polk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282182. 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.

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.