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Elwood Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bradenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34208. It stands on Gap Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bradenton quadrangle.

Elwood Park within Manatee 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 Elwood Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Elwood Park, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Elwood Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 234 acres in total. 14 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
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3

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 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2016Natural50 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINE ISLAND (41)
8 July 2004Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service13TH AV FIRE
8 July 2004Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIGHT HOUSE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manatee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Elwood Park: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Dolomite, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clarks Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, DolomitePast Producer
P and R Shell Pit No. 2CalciumProducer
State Road 70 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bradenton Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Minton Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Palmetto Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Manatee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elwood Park in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindElwood Park$20,000Southern Manatee Fire & Rescue reported damage to roofs fences, and trees around 30th Street East and 44th Avenue East in Bradenton.
May 2014HailElwood Park-Public reported nickel sized hail falling near Bradenton.

Every storm recorded in Manatee 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
Eastgate1.9 miles14
Samoset1.9 miles14
Braden Castle2.3 miles14
Manatee2.6 miles14
Oneco2.6 miles14
West Samoset2.7 miles14
Fullers Earth3.5 miles17
Manavista3.6 miles17

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 Elwood ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16873419The 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 282189. 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.