BlockFortymile Bend, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33194. The Survey maps it on the Fortymile Bend quadrangle.
Then and now
1956 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1956 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Fortymile Bend quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Fortymile Bend quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Fortymile Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26,421 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2007 | Fireworks | 207 acres | Everglades National Park | MICCOSUKEE |
| 3 July 2008 | Natural | 49 acres | Everglades National Park | LOOP ROAD |
| 27 July 2015 | Natural | 32 acres | Everglades National Park | WEST CAMP WF |
| 18 July 1997 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | MITCHELL |
| 14 July 2015 | Natural | 6.5 acres | Everglades National Park | COUNTYLINE WF |
| 13 July 2015 | Natural | 264 acres | Everglades National Park | DOGWOOD WF |
| 14 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Everglades National Park | LOOP ROAD |
| 7 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25,834 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | MOONFISH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox Tommies Old Place | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pops Hammock Seminole Village | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Tenmile Corner | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Frog City | 12.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mart Law Seminole Village | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| Coopertown | 14.1 miles | 9 | |
| The Hammocks | 21.2 miles | 16 | |
| Inlikita | 21.3 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295300. 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.