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Mintons Corner, 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.

Mintons Corner 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 Mintons Corner, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Mintons Corner, 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Mintons Corner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,117 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 31 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 use68
Arson/incendiarism31
Natural31
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning9
Smoking6
Fireworks1

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
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
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSARNO (05)
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceT-BONE (05)
5 August 2005Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSIMON (O5)
28 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 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 Mintons Corner: 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

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mintons Corner in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flash flood. 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
October 2017Flash FloodMintons Corner-Widespread 8-10 inches of rain fell in southern Brevard County during a 2-4 hour period, affecting areas from West Melbourne to Indialantic, south to Malabar and Floridana Beach, including Palm Bay and Melbourne Beach. Water entered homes in the Powell Subdivision in Palm Bay along Main Street and US-1. Water also entered a home on Barracuda Avenue in Melbourne Beach. Lipscomb Road was closed from University Boulevard to Florida Avenue. A portion of Valkaria Road west of US-1 was washed out, following some erosion which occurred a few weeks earlier during Hurricane Irma. On Port Malabar Road flood waters reached up to the bumper of trucks.

Every storm 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 Village0.5 miles16
June Park0.7 miles16
Melbourne Gardens0.9 miles16
West Melbourne1.0 miles16
Melbourne3.3 miles13
West Eau Gallie3.9 miles15
Aurora4.0 miles15
Eau Gallie4.1 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 Q122540514The 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 286970. 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.

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.