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Harker, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Immokalee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34142. It lies near Owl Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Sunniland quadrangle.

Harker within Collier County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harker, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Harker, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Harker between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,753 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Natural9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3

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
27 August 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLATE WORK (11)
16 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2004Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2004-17-0429
5 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 June 1994Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2000Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service11/THE 858 FIRE
11 June 1994Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Harker: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Crapse PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Florida Rock Ind. - Sunniland QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Collier County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harker in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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
June 2023HailHarker-A retired NWS employee reported hail up to 1.25 in diameter in Ave Maria.

Every storm recorded in Collier 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
Ave Maria4.8 miles13
Sunniland5.1 miles12
Immokalee6.5 miles12
Miles City13.1 miles13
Orangetree13.4 miles12
Corkscrew14.5 miles12
Golden Gates Estates15.7 miles13
Rock Island15.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295336. 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.