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Pine Island Ridge, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Davie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33324. It lies near Pine Island. The Survey maps it on the Cooper City quadrangle. 5,199 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Pine Island Ridge within Broward County

Then and now

1956 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Island Ridge, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pine Island Ridge, surveyed 1956

Compare 1956 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Pine Island Ridge between 1993 and 2018, burning about 165 acres in total. 1 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 maintenance6
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
9 August 2003Natural40 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE FENDER FIRE
21 July 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2 PILE FIRE
18 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 May 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 April 1998Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMCCALL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pine Island Ridge: 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Dimension, Silica. 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
Powerline PitSilicaPast Producer
State Road QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown
Triple R Paving Inc.Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
136th Street PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
84 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arvida LakesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bates ProjectStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Deem PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ferncrest QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Broward 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
Plantation Isles2.5 miles16
Cooper City2.6 miles15
Melalevca Isles2.8 miles15
Sunshine Acres2.9 miles15
Fern Crest Village2.9 miles16
Playland Village3.0 miles16
Plantation Park3.0 miles16
Davie3.1 miles16

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 Pine Island RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2614034The 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 1867186. 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.