Fruita, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port Salerno-Hobe Sound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34997. It lies near Long Island. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucie Inlet quadrangle.

Fruita within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fruita, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Fruita, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1948 USGS St Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS St. Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS St. Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Fruita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,162 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 14 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	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Recreation and ceremony	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2

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
6 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ST ANDREWS (43)
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MA-SUGAR PINE FIRE-1145
7 August 2010	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
31 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PRINCEWOOD (43)
3 August 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(MA) COVE (1237)
21 August 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PINE (43)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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
Pinelake Gardens Estates	1.4 miles	18
Port Salerno	2.0 miles	16
Coral Gardens	2.3 miles	16
Gomez	3.3 miles	18
Golden Gate	3.4 miles	16
Seminole Shores	3.6 miles	16
Port Sewall	4.1 miles	16
Hobe Sound	5.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300036. 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.