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Felda, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the LaBelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33930. The Survey maps it on the Felda quadrangle. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Felda within Hendry County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Felda, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Felda, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Felda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 2 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
Natural24
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
7 August 2010Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service11/HIGHLINE FIRE
21 August 2000Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1996Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1998Natural1.4 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2020Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLAMM ROAD (11)
13 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHOMAS RD (26)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hendry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Felda in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2013Funnel CloudFelda-The Emergency Manager relayed a report from local Law Enforcement that a funnel cloud was observed along Immokalee Road 7 miles west-southwest of Felda.
July 2000Flash FloodFelda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hendry 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
Keri5.0 miles12
Sears8.0 miles12
Denaud14.5 miles13
Port LaBelle15.0 miles12
LaBelle15.3 miles12
Whidden Corner23.9 miles11
Harlem29.1 miles11
Sugarton29.6 miles12

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 FeldaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5441634The 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 294762. 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.