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Mission Bay, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Sunshine Parkway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33498. The Survey maps it on the West Dixie Bend quadrangle. 2,926 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Mission Bay within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mission Bay, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Mission Bay, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mission Bay between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,619 acres in total. 15 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 1994Natural320 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSOUTHEAST
7 August 1994Natural5.0 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSPOT
10 August 1999Natural60 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSOUTHEAST
26 July 2018Naturalunder an acreArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSOUTH LOX
18 July 2006Natural448 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeL-7 CANAL
14 July 2004Natural10 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge30 MINUTE
13 July 1997Natural100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2002Naturalunder an acreArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeNATURALOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mission Bay: 6 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
101 Sand PitSilicaProducer
Cypress Head PitSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loxahatchee Enterprises Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southeast MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Griffin Brothers - Rock Quarry Number 2SandProducer
Hardrives Co, - Loxahatchee RoadSandProducer
Loxahatchee Enterprises - Loxahatchee MineSandUnknownSand
Ryan, Inc. - Lox Road MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
Hamptons at Boca Raton1.5 miles16
Whisper Walk2.1 miles16
Sandalfoot Cove2.4 miles16
Boca West2.7 miles16
Boca Pointe3.7 miles16
Boca Del Mar3.8 miles16
University Park4.5 miles16
Paradise Palms4.6 miles16

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 Mission BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2045159The 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 1867176. 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.