BlockFort Jefferson, Florida
3 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1971 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Key West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33040. It lies near Garden Key. The Survey maps it on the Dry Tortugas OE E quadrangle.
Then and now
1971 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 18 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Fort Jefferson
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Dry Tortugas National ParkNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992 · 0.1 miles away
Fort Jefferson National Monumentlisted 1970 · 0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveysMatched 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.
- 1971 USGS Dry Tortugas quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Dry Tortugas quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Dry Tortugas quadrangle1:250000
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key West | 58.0 miles | 10 | |
| Stock Island | 60.3 miles | 7 | |
| El Chico | 64.3 miles | 7 | |
| Big Coppitt Key | 64.3 miles | 7 | |
| Bay Point | 67.9 miles | 9 | |
| Perky | 69.0 miles | 9 | |
| Sugarloaf Shores | 69.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pirates Cove | 72.0 miles | 9 |
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 Fort Jefferson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q88428 | 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 295294. 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.