Palm Lake Estates South, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Riviera Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33404. The Survey maps it on the Riviera Beach quadrangle.

Palm Lake Estates South within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 41 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 Lake Estates South, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Palm Lake Estates South, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1946 USGS Riviera Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Riviera Beach quadrangle1:24000
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
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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Palm Lake Estates South between 1992 and 2017, burning about 557 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SLOUGH COMMD.
21 August 2011	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WATSON (50)
13 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BANYON CMND
10 August 2006	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	GULF STREAM COMMAND
30 July 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	OKEECHOBEE COMMAND
23 July 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 July 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	47TH ST COMMAND
1 July 2015	Natural	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	TIMBER TRACE ( 50 )

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gramercy Park	1.5 miles	14
Mangonia Park	2.0 miles	14
Riviera Beach	2.4 miles	14
Lake Park	2.4 miles	14
North Palm Beach	2.8 miles	14
Lakeside Green	2.9 miles	16
Palm Beach Shores	3.6 miles	14
Palm Beach Gardens	3.6 miles	16

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 Q122548093

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 2452112. 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.