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Garden Isles, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Pompano Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33060. The Survey maps it on the Pompano Beach quadrangle.

Garden Isles within Broward County

Then and now

1949 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Garden Isles, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Garden Isles, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Garden Isles between 2010 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHLAND SCRUB (6)
26 February 2010Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEERFIELD FIRE
25 February 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINEAPPLE (06)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Garden Isles: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Desrocher Sand and Rock - Desrocher PitSandProducer
Decker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Margate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pompano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tscotis Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broward 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
Cypress Isles Estates0.4 miles17
Cypress Harbor0.6 miles17
Lyons Park0.8 miles18
High Ridge Estates0.8 miles17
Santa Barbara Shores1.0 miles17
Pompano Beach1.0 miles17
Pompano Isles1.0 miles17
Terra Mar1.3 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122566527The 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 282927. 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.