BlockJewfish, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Upper Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33037. It lies near Cross Key. The Survey maps it on the Blackwater Sound quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1947 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1947 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1947 USGS Blackwater Sound quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Blackwater Sound quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Homestead quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jewfish in 2011, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Everglades National Park | 102 BAYSIDE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Cove | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Anglers Park | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Newport | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Key Largo Park | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Carysfort Yacht Harbor | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| North Key Largo | 6.7 miles | 18 | |
| Key Largo | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Dynamite Docks | 8.1 miles | 18 |
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 Jewfish | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6189702 | 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 294361. 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.