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Limestone Creek, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Jupiter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33458. The Survey maps it on the Rood quadrangle. 1,316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Limestone Creek within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1948 to 1987

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 Limestone Creek, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Limestone Creek, surveyed 1948

Compare 1948 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Limestone Creek grew from 569 to 1,316 between 2000 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
2000569
20101,014+445 (+78%)
20201,316+302 (+30%)

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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Limestone Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,223 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 5 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
Natural50
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
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
7 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHobe Sound National Wildlife RefugeLINE DOWN
3 August 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2004Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNORTH LAKE 2 FIRE
14 August 2010Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) SANDY PINES (461)
11 August 2000Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2004Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Service# 1 DONALD ROSS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach 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 Limestone Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Dubois Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
West Jupiter1.6 miles16
Tequesta1.9 miles16
Jupiter2.6 miles15
Salhaven3.0 miles15
Rood3.0 miles16
Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony3.5 miles15
North Palm Beach Heights3.7 miles16
West Jupiter Camping Resort5.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Limestone CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2980073The 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 1853267. 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.