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Highlands Park Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Placid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33852. The Survey maps it on the Lake Placid quadrangle.

Highlands Park Estates within Highlands County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Highlands Park Estates, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Highlands Park Estates, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

354 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Highlands Park Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,388 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 32 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
Railroad operations and maintenance110
Debris and open burning50
Equipment and vehicle use40
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Recreation and ceremony18
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Smoking13
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDASHER (28)
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(HI) HARVEY (499)
18 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) ANTHROP (0701)
17 September 2005Debris and open burning3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHI-HUMMER FIRE-1193
15 September 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(HI) DRUMMOND (1182)
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHI-LAKE MIRROR FIRE & NOV-1180
10 September 1994Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands 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
Sylvan Shores1.8 miles14
Sunvale2.5 miles14
Lake Placid2.8 miles14
Parker Island4.1 miles13
Marland4.5 miles13
Placid Lakes6.6 miles13
Bairs Den6.6 miles13
Bear Hollow6.7 miles13

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 Q122572299The 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 300947. 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.