Hell Gate, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Port Salerno-Hobe Sound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33469. The Survey maps it on the Jupiter quadrangle.

Hell Gate within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1987

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 Hell Gate, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Hell Gate, surveyed 1948

Compare 1948 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1948 USGS Jupiter quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Jupiter quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Hell Gate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,157 acres in total. 21 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
Natural	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	LINE DOWN
27 August 2004	Natural	3.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	NORTH LAKE 2 FIRE
14 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(MA) SANDY PINES (461)
3 July 2004	Natural	30 acres	Florida Forest Service	JD STATE PARK SCOUT
29 July 2005	Natural	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	MA-TRAPPER-997
28 July 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 July 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	BOY SCOUT CAMP (43)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Blowing Rocks	0.3 miles	15
Jupiter Island	3.9 miles	17
Hobe Sound	6.3 miles	18
Gomez	8.0 miles	18
Pinelake Gardens Estates	11.3 miles	18
Fruita	11.4 miles	16
Port Salerno	13.0 miles	16
Coral Gardens	13.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295343. 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.