Frog City, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33194. The Survey maps it on the Coopertown quadrangle.

Frog City within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

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 Frog City, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Frog City, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Coopertown quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Frog City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26,444 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
14 September 2015	Natural	1.7 acres	Everglades National Park	MITCHELL
14 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Everglades National Park	BLUE SHANTY
29 August 2004	Natural	2,134 acres	Everglades National Park	COOPERETOW
24 August 2003	Natural	9.0 acres	Everglades National Park	TOWER
23 August 2011	Natural	7,491 acres	Everglades National Park	SHANTY FIRE
20 August 2002	Natural	19 acres	Everglades National Park	NATRLOUT04
20 August 2002	Natural	170 acres	Everglades National Park	8TOWERS
2 August 1998	Natural	1.5 acres	Everglades National Park	EASTL67

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Coopertown

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coopertown	2.0 miles	9
Pops Hammock Seminole Village	9.9 miles	10
The Hammocks	10.2 miles	16
Kendall Lakes	10.5 miles	16
Tamiami	10.6 miles	12
Smallpox Tommies Old Place	10.8 miles	12
Kendale Lakes	10.8 miles	16
Sweetwater	12.0 miles	14

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 Frog City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q603661	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 294780. 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.