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Padgett Island, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33476. It stands on Padgett Island. The Survey maps it on the Pahokee quadrangle.

Padgett Island within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The 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 sheet of Padgett Island, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Padgett Island, surveyed 1956

On record in Padgett Island

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

7 surveys from 10 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Padgett Island between 1992 and 2012, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROADSIDE ( 50 )
5 June 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service842
24 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGLADES FIRE
27 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOWER PLANT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Fremd Village0.6 miles10
Pahokee0.7 miles10
Pelican Lake2.6 miles10
Cardwell3.2 miles10
Bryant3.5 miles10
Canal Point3.5 miles10
Runyon5.4 miles12
Sand Cut7.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2407595. 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.