BlockPelican Lake, Florida
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33476. The Survey maps it on the Bryant quadrangle.
Then and now
1956 to 1987The 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 sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 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
- 1970 USGS Bryant quadrangle1:24000
- 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
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pelican Lake between 1992 and 2012, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 maintenance | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ROADSIDE ( 50 ) |
| 5 June 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 842 |
| 24 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | GLADES FIRE |
| 27 May 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | POWER PLANT FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremd Village | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Padgett Island | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Bryant | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Pahokee | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Canal Point | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Cardwell | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Runyon | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Sand Cut | 7.0 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 288676. 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.