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Fishermens Village, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Punta Gorda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33950. The Survey maps it on the Punta Gorda quadrangle.

Fishermens Village within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fishermens Village, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Fishermens Village, surveyed 1956

On record in Fishermens Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Fishermens Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 894 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 12 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
Natural45
Equipment and vehicle use30
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Fireworks2

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
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-FARNHAM FIRE-0419
18 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePHEASANT BLVD (08)
7 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-OAKVIEW FIRE-0466
3 August 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFAIRWAY DR (08)
27 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePEPPER TREE (08)
20 August 2020Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLD LANDFILL ROAD (08)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte 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 Fishermens Village: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand, Limestone, General. 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
Apac-Florida - Viercocken PitSandProducer
Sunland Paving Co. - Sunland Pelican PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hendrickson Seashell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 31CalciumProducer
Rigby Airport PitCalciumProducer
Route 31 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Charlotte 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
Punta Gorda0.9 miles13
Punta Gorda Isles1.2 miles13
Charlotte Park1.3 miles13
Aqui Esta1.7 miles13
Charlotte Harbor2.1 miles13
Solana2.3 miles13
Harbor View3.0 miles13
Burnt Store Lakes3.1 miles13

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 Q122568326The 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 307356. 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.