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Palm River Shores, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Naples census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34110. The Survey maps it on the Bonita Springs quadrangle.

Palm River Shores within Collier 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 River Shores, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Palm River Shores, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Palm River Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 16 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 maintenance42
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2012Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceVIKING WAY (11)
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON (11)
15 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEARNING LANE (11)
5 July 1992Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier 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 River Shores: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bonita PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Collier 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
Vanderbilt Beach0.3 miles14
Palm River Estates0.6 miles14
Palm River0.7 miles14
Pelican Marsh1.2 miles14
Four Seasons1.3 miles14
Willoughby Acres1.4 miles14
Naples Park1.4 miles14
Gulf Harbor1.5 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 Q122540899The 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 301151. 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.