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Glidden Park, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Pierce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34950. It stands on Moore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Pierce quadrangle.

Glidden Park within St. Lucie County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Glidden Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Glidden Park, surveyed 1949

On record in Glidden Park

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 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Glidden Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 701 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 9 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
Natural25
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2

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
3 September 1996Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2009Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(SL) HARD TO FIND (649)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Glidden Park: 14 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Limestone, General. 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
Stewart - Stewart MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Airport MineSilicaProducer
North PitSilicaProducer
Ralls MineSilicaProducer
Saggy PitSilicaProducer
Minton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morgan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
St. Lucie MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie 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
Fort Pierce0.7 miles21
Cortez Estates1.6 miles20
Sunland Gardens2.3 miles20
Paradise Park2.4 miles21
Anglevillas2.5 miles20
Harmony Heights3.1 miles20
Saint Lucie3.6 miles21
Lakewood Park3.7 miles20

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 Q122553102The 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 307973. 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.