BlockIslandia, Florida
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Homestead census division. It lies near Totten Key. The Survey maps it on the Arsenicker Keys quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1949 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1949 against another survey:
On record in Islandia
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Jones Family Historic Districtlisted 2013
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Arsenicker Keys quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Arsenicker Keys quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Homestead quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Arsenicker Keys quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1997 USGS Arsenicker Keys quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Islandia in 2006, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Everglades National Park | 187/136 DOF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cutter Bank | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Gold Key | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Sponge Rocks | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| The Keyhole | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| South Allapattah | 12.3 miles | 17 | |
| Leisure City | 12.4 miles | 16 | |
| Gateway Estates | 12.7 miles | 16 | |
| Gateway West | 12.9 miles | 16 |
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 Islandia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2049988 | The 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 304638. 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.