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Matlacha Isles, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cape Coral census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33993. It lies near Porpoise Point Island. The Survey maps it on the Matlacha quadrangle.

Matlacha Isles within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Matlacha Isles, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Matlacha Isles, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

75 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Matlacha Isles between 1993 and 2018, burning about 672 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 3 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
Natural27
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2013Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCEMETERY (36)
20 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest Service2005-17-0389
6 July 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSADDLEWOOD (36)
6 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2011Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREHAB (36)
25 July 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 1994Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Matlacha Isles: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Harper Brothers - Nelson Shell PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Matlacha0.6 miles12
Matlacha Shores0.8 miles12
Pine Island Center3.2 miles14
Flamingo Bay4.9 miles14
Pineland5.0 miles14
Caloosahatchee (historical)5.6 miles15
Bokeelia6.9 miles14
Cape Coral7.9 miles15

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 Q122596422The 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 2407589. 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.