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Harbor View, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Port Charlotte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33980. It lies near Bird Key. The Survey maps it on the Punta Gorda quadrangle.

Harbor View within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 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 View, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Harbor View, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

373 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 373 fires within 5 miles of Harbor View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,227 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 24 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
Natural82
Misuse of fire by a minor70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use56
Debris and open burning34
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks4
Smoking3

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
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Natural35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-FARNHAM FIRE-0419
18 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-OAKVIEW FIRE-0466

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Harbor View: 7 producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Sunland Paving Co. - Sunland Pelican PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hendrickson Seashell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit 31CalciumProducer
Rigby Airport PitCalciumProducer
Route 31 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Apac-Florida - Viercocken PitSandProducer
Peace River Conservancy - Kings Highway MineSandUnknown
Peace River Conservancy - Kings Hwy Pit.SandProducer

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harbor View in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2016Thunderstorm WindHarbor View$225,000Charlotte County Emergency Management reported that they received an estimated 60 different calls from home and business owners about wind damage around western Charlotte County on the morning of the 17th. A total of 17 screen pool enclosures were damaged and 22 business had damage to the plastic covering of illuminated signs. Other reported damage included trees and branches blown down and minor damage to soffit and fascia. The emergency manager also noted that this was the most significant ||Pictures were also relayed from broadcast media showing wind damage to the roof of a block walled commercial building. The pictures showed significant sections of the shingles and sub-roofing material were pulled up and deposited in the parking lot, resulting in water intrusion.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHarbor View$5,000A pool cage was reported damaged near the corner of Via Veneto Drive and Socorro Drive in Punta Gorda.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHarbor View-The Punta Gorda - Charlotte County Airport - ASOS (KPGD) recorded a wind gust to 59 mph.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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
Charlotte Harbor1.6 miles13
Solana1.7 miles13
Harbour Heights2.5 miles13
Tee and Green Estates2.7 miles13
Port Charlotte2.7 miles13
Punta Gorda2.7 miles13
Fishermens Village3.0 miles13
Cleveland3.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 283717. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.