BlockNinemile Bend, Florida
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33430. The Survey maps it on the Sixmile Bend 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
7 surveys from 10 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
- 1970 USGS Sixmile Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ninemile Bend between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 April 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | HATTON HIGHWAY FIRE |
| 5 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CANE PLANT (50) |
| 4 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 February 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 November 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sixmile Bend | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Belle Glade | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Belle Glade Camp | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Runyon | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Twentymile Bend | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Browns Farm | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Dahlberg | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Shawano | 8.6 miles | 11 |
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 Q122548689 | 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 295492. 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.