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Palm Shores, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Melbourne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32935. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eau Gallie quadrangle. 1,200 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Palm Shores within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 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 Shores, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Palm Shores, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Palm Shores grew from 900 to 1,200 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010900
20201,200+300 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Palm Shores between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,075 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use38
Natural31
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWER LINE (05)
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSARNO (05)
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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
Mobiland by the Sea0.5 miles15
Sherman Park0.8 miles15
Tropic2.4 miles12
South Patrick Shores2.6 miles12
South Patrick3.2 miles12
Satellite Beach3.4 miles12
West Eau Gallie3.5 miles15
Aurora3.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Palm ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152107The 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 288411. 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.