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.
Then and now
1956 to 1987The 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 sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Miles City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Naples quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
159 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Natural | 15 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | RAILROAD |
| 7 September 2007 | Natural | 15 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | ROCK ISLAND |
| 6 September 2007 | Natural | 40 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | PRAIRIE |
| 6 September 2007 | Natural | 272 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | LONE CHICKEN |
| 25 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge | NAT.OUT#2 |
| 20 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge | NAT.OUT#1 |
| 2 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | SAIL FIN |
| 14 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge | LIGHTNING TREE AT E RAWS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Hail | Miles 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Island | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Deep Lake | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Sunniland | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Golden Gates Estates | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Jerome | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Harker | 13.1 miles | 12 | |
| Ave Maria | 13.4 miles | 13 | |
| Copeland | 13.9 miles | 10 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6851356 | The 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.





