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Miles City, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. It lies near Model T Flat. The Survey maps it on the Miles City quadrangle.

Miles City within Collier County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Miles City, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Miles City, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Miles City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44,390 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 2 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
Natural97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2007Natural15 acresBig Cypress National PreserveRAILROAD
7 September 2007Natural15 acresBig Cypress National PreserveROCK ISLAND
6 September 2007Natural40 acresBig Cypress National PreservePRAIRIE
6 September 2007Natural272 acresBig Cypress National PreserveLONE CHICKEN
25 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Panther National Wildlife RefugeNAT.OUT#2
20 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Panther National Wildlife RefugeNAT.OUT#1
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveSAIL FIN
14 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Panther National Wildlife RefugeLIGHTNING TREE AT E RAWS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miles City in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008HailMiles City-A severe thunderstorm developed across the Big Cypress National Preserve and moved northwest across interstate 75 producing hail the size of quarters for around ten minutes at the Collier County rest area on Alligator Alley.

Every storm recorded in Collier 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
Rock Island2.9 miles12
Deep Lake7.7 miles12
Sunniland7.9 miles12
Golden Gates Estates9.8 miles13
Jerome10.8 miles10
Harker13.1 miles12
Ave Maria13.4 miles13
Copeland13.9 miles10

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 Miles CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6851356The 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 295450. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.