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Indian River City, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Titusville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32780. It stands on Addison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Titusville quadrangle.

Indian River City within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Indian River City, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Indian River City, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Indian River City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,758 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 9 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
Natural64
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1

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
26 September 2016Natural120 acresMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeTEAL
20 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeWEST GATOR CREEK FIRE
13 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALYNA (05)
10 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife Refuge95
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJUMPER (05)
4 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance46 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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 Indian River City: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand, 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
F&W Mines - Hwy 520 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Fredrick Renaud Co. - Renaud PitSandProducer
Kirschenbaum Co. - Ti-Co PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Brevard 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
South Titusville0.8 miles14
Whispering Hills Golf Estates2.7 miles14
Titusville3.6 miles14
Bellwood3.9 miles14
Delespine4.9 miles14
La Grange5.5 miles13
Port Saint John5.7 miles14
Jay Jay6.0 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 Q122554362The 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 284532. 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.