Miakka, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1944 1988

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 1 record

• Miakka School Houselisted 1986

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.

• 1944 USGS Miakka quadrangle1:31680
• 1944 USGS Old Myakka quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Old Myakka quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Sarasota quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Miakka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 19 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Old Myakka
• Hidden River
• Laurel Villa
• Osprey
• Shiney Town
• Sunrise

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300870. 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.