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Indian River Shores, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32963. It lies near Barker Island. The Survey maps it on the Vero Beach quadrangle. 4,241 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Indian River Shores within Indian River County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

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 Indian River Shores, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Indian River Shores, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Indian River Shores grew from 3,901 to 4,241 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,901
20204,241+340 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Indian River Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 4 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
Natural32
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(IR) GOLF COURSE (0685)
6 September 1999Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service140
21 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(IR) 58TH AVE FIRE (1461)
18 September 1996Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(IR) BENT PINE (694)
9 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Indian River Shores: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Henry Fischer and Son Sand Co. -Yellow Sand PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Indian River 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
Winter Beach1.9 miles19
Gifford3.1 miles19
Wabasso Beach3.4 miles17
Wabasso3.5 miles19
Orchid4.2 miles17
Riomar5.2 miles16
North Beach5.2 miles17
Vero Beach5.4 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on Indian River ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2092746The 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 295374. 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.