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Palm Grove Colony, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hernando Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34607. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bayport quadrangle.

Palm Grove Colony within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 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 Grove Colony, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Palm Grove Colony, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Palm Grove Colony between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,296 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 22 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
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOND (27)
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27-GOLD STAR-0954
4 September 2001Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUSH MILLS (27)
9 August 1993Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Palm Grove Colony: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Hernando Sandpit & Wood Facility - Hernando SandpitSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hernando 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
Bayport0.9 miles16
Weeki Wachee Gardens1.2 miles16
Cooglers Beach1.3 miles16
Pine Island2.2 miles16
Weeki Wachee3.8 miles14
Berkeley3.9 miles14
Weekiwachee Gardens3.9 miles14
Weeki Wachee Acres4.9 miles15

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 Q122565960The 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 300937. 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.