Pinecrest, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cape Sable census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. It lies near Tamarind Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Lostmans Trail quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Pinecrest within Monroe County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

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 Pinecrest, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Pinecrest, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Lostmans Trail quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pinecrest between 1997 and 2020, burning about 28,293 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 July 2001	Natural	51 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	BALL 2
24 July 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	TIGER
18 July 1997	Natural	8.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	MITCHELL
25 June 2007	Natural	7.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	SOUTH LOOP
21 June 2008	Natural	2,276 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	LIME TREE
7 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	25,834 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	MOONFISH
10 April 1999	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	PINECREST2
10 April 1999	Natural	15 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	PINECREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinecrest in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2022	Tornado (EFU)	Pinecrest	-	Tornado over the Everglades of Mainland Monroe County near Loop Road was confirmed by doppler radar tornado debris signature.
June 2012	Hail	Pinecrest	-	A spotter reported nickel sized hail at the Loop Road Education Center.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Trail City	3.2 miles	12
Trail Center	5.2 miles	12
Chatham	16.3 miles	9
The Watson Place	16.4 miles	9
Walter Hamilton Place	17.9 miles	9
Leon Hamilton Place	21.0 miles	9
Flamingo	41.8 miles	11
Grayvik	45.6 miles	18

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 Pinecrest	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195457	The 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 288924. 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.