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Harbor Beach, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Lauderdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33316. It stands on New River. The Survey maps it on the Port Everglades quadrangle.

Harbor Beach 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 Harbor Beach, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Harbor Beach, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

On record in Harbor Beach

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harbor Beach in 2015, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Natural1

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
25 May 2015Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEMORIAL (6)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Harbor Beach: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dania PitPeat, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gateway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pegram MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Rio Vista Isles0.5 miles18
Lauderdale Harbors0.5 miles16
Harbor Heights0.6 miles18
Port Everglades0.9 miles16
Nurmi Isles1.2 miles18
Sunrise Key1.7 miles17
Birch Ocean Front1.8 miles17
Fort Lauderdale1.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 283706. 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.