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Fedhaven, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Wales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33898. The Survey maps it on the Lake Weohyakapka quadrangle. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Fedhaven within Polk County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fedhaven, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fedhaven, surveyed 1952

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Fedhaven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,530 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 23 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
Natural66
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
5 September 2001Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service53 TREE FARM
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2005-14-0349
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTIGER
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use52 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2008Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service53 PRAIRIE CMD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Nalcrest0.7 miles15
Hesperides3.1 miles15
Indian Lake Estates3.5 miles15
Alcoma4.5 miles15
Babson Park6.1 miles14
Hillcrest Heights6.7 miles14
Highland Park7.9 miles14
Crooked Lake Park9.3 miles14

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 FedhavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6479011The 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 282405. 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.