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Melbourne Gardens, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Melbourne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32904. The Survey maps it on the Melbourne West quadrangle.

Melbourne Gardens within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Melbourne Gardens, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Melbourne Gardens, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Melbourne Gardens between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,403 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 30 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
Equipment and vehicle use75
Natural34
Arson/incendiarism30
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning9
Smoking6
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUGAR PINE (5)
25 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSARNO (05)
5 August 2005Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSIMON (O5)
4 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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 Melbourne Gardens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Melbourne-Palm Bay PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerStaurolite, Kyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Brevard 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
Melbourne Village0.7 miles16
Mintons Corner0.9 miles16
June Park1.3 miles16
West Melbourne1.8 miles16
West Eau Gallie3.1 miles15
Aurora3.1 miles15
Eau Gallie3.6 miles15
Melbourne3.7 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 Q122569692The 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 301167. 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.