Evans Pines, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Melbourne Shores-Floridana Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32951. It lies near Latham Island. The Survey maps it on the Sebastian NW quadrangle.

Evans Pines within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Evans Pines, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Evans Pines, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1949 USGS Sebastian NW quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Sebastian NW quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Evans Pines between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,151 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 7 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
Natural	28
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	WAGON (05)
15 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	2003-12-1080 INDIAN RIVER
4 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	RATTLESNAKE (05)
26 August 2000	Natural	30 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 August 2012	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	HIDE AWAY (05)
19 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Floridana Beach	1.2 miles	17
Ballard Pines	1.2 miles	17
Grant	1.8 miles	16
Melbourne Shores	2.5 miles	16
Micco	3.4 miles	16
Valkaria	3.6 miles	16
Grant-Valkaria	4.2 miles	16
Malabar	6.4 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122546422

The 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 301170. 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.