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Palm Lake Park, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stuart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34994. It stands on Warner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palm City quadrangle.

Palm Lake Park within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 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 Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Palm Lake Park, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Palm Lake Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,086 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 15 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
Natural32
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks3
Smoking2
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
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOLDEN ROD RD(43)
14 August 1996Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2012Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAVANNAH RD. (43)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Lake Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jensen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Martin 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
Rio0.8 miles16
North River Shores1.1 miles17
Ocean Breeze Park1.8 miles16
Stuart1.9 miles17
Lighthouse Point2.0 miles17
Skyline Heights2.0 miles16
Snug Harbor2.2 miles16
Jensen Beach2.3 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 Q122556851The 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 301135. 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.