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Key Largo Park, Florida

15 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 stands on South Sound Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rock Harbor quadrangle.

Key Largo Park within Monroe County

Then and now

1947 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Key Largo Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Key Largo Park, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

On record in Key Largo Park

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Key Largo Park 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
Natural1

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
23 March 2011Naturalunder an acreEverglades National Park102 BAYSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Key Largo Park: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Tavernier PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keystone Products - Noel MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Upper Keys Marine Constr. - Noel PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Newport0.1 miles15
Key Largo1.5 miles15
Rock Harbor2.4 miles15
Anglers Park3.1 miles13
Sunset Point5.0 miles15
Thompson5.3 miles15
Garden Cove5.9 miles14
Jewfish6.0 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 Q122573310The 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 299996. 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.