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Old Myakka, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Interior County census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34240. The Survey maps it on the Old Myakka quadrangle.

Old Myakka within Sarasota County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Old Myakka, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Old Myakka, surveyed 1944

On record in Old Myakka

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Old Myakka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMIDWAY RD. (58)
5 September 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMURPHY RD (58)
17 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2012Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMYAKKA VALLEY RANCH (58)
29 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2012Natural4.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMIDWAY RD (58)
5 June 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Myakka in 1 storm report in 1993: 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
February 1993HailOld Myakka-Quarter-size hail fell.

Every storm recorded in Sarasota 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
Miakka0.6 miles14
Hidden River1.0 miles14
Honore4.9 miles11
Utopia5.2 miles14
Tatum Ridge7.5 miles13
Fordville8.1 miles13
Tatum8.4 miles13
Lake Sarasota9.2 miles13

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 Q122548261The 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 294873. 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.