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Footman, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Merritt Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32952. It lies near Meritt Island. The Survey maps it on the Cocoa quadrangle.

Footman within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Footman, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Footman, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Footman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,022 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHERON'S (05)
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBELLVIEW (05)
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance130 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Footman: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Rockledge MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Angel City1.9 miles12
Rockledge2.3 miles12
Rockwell2.6 miles12
Georgiana3.0 miles12
Tropical Park3.5 miles13
Bonaventure3.9 miles12
Cocoa Beach4.5 miles12
Cocoa4.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282648. 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.