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Pelican Marsh, 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 34109. The Survey maps it on the Bonita Springs quadrangle.

Pelican Marsh 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 Pelican Marsh, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Pelican Marsh, 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Pelican Marsh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,846 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 18 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 maintenance43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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)
12 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEARNING LANE (11)
5 July 1992Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2019Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJULIETTE (11)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelican Marsh in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1997Tornado (F0)Pelican Marsh$200,000no account filed

Every storm 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 Beach1.0 miles14
Palm River Shores1.2 miles14
Naples Park1.2 miles14
Four Seasons1.4 miles14
Palm River1.5 miles14
Palm River Estates1.6 miles14
Pine Ridge1.8 miles15
Willoughby Acres2.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806008. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.