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Palm and Pine Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33916. It lies near Ward Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers quadrangle.

Palm and Pine Park within Lee 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 Palm and Pine Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Palm and Pine Park, surveyed 1956

On record in Palm and Pine Park

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 5 records

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 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

375 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 375 fires within 5 miles of Palm and Pine Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,340 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 29 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
Railroad operations and maintenance132
Natural58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use34
Recreation and ceremony29
Arson/incendiarism29
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Debris and open burning16
Smoking3
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2

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 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/0506-NOV
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/THE HUNTER FIRE
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUBSTATION (36)
15 August 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBARN (36)
13 August 1999Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Palm and Pine Park: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Harper Brothers - Colonial MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Colonial Dolomite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edison PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Fort Myers1.6 miles14
Bayshore Manor1.6 miles14
North Fort Myers1.7 miles14
Salvista2.0 miles14
Tice2.3 miles14
Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park2.6 miles14
Poinciana Estates3.1 miles14
Palmona Park3.2 miles14

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 Q122551014The 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 2448052. 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.