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Inlikita, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Princeton-Goulds census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33187. The Survey maps it on the Goulds quadrangle.

Inlikita within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Inlikita, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Inlikita, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

927 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 927 fires within 5 miles of Inlikita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,482 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 246 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
Arson/incendiarism246
Missing data/not specified/undetermined206
Equipment and vehicle use158
Debris and open burning136
Railroad operations and maintenance125
Natural25
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
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
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresEverglades National Park197/184 DOF
5 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEverglades National ParkDOF 204/168
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDJ FIRE
23 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2016Natural8.3 acresEverglades National ParkFFS 214/136

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade 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 Inlikita: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Eureka PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade 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
Aladdin City2.7 miles16
Lindgren2.8 miles16
Country Walk3.4 miles16
Vehlin3.5 miles16
Silver Palm Place3.7 miles16
Silver Palm4.2 miles16
Redland5.1 miles16
The Hammocks5.2 miles16

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 Q122554857The 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 284553. 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.