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Pirate Harbor, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Punta Gorda census division. It lies near Roberts Island. The Survey maps it on the Punta Gorda SE quadrangle.

Pirate Harbor within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pirate Harbor, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Pirate Harbor, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Pirate Harbor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,795 acres in total. 135 started naturally. 9 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
Natural135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use37
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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 September 2009Fireworks3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service08-ZEMEL RANGE FIRE-0486
3 September 2020Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOTGUN ROAD (08)
3 September 2013Natural2.1 acresFlorida Forest ServiceZEMEL ROAD (08)
28 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePANATELLA TREADMILL 2 (08)
28 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePANATELLA TREADMILL (08)
24 September 2016Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOTGUN (08)
23 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceZEMEL (08)
23 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGASPARILLA (08)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte 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
Tropical Gulf Acres3.9 miles12
South Punta Gorda Heights5.2 miles12
Acline5.9 miles13
Riviera Lagoons6.0 miles13
Blue Heron Pines6.2 miles13
Burnt Store Lakes6.3 miles13
Aqui Esta7.1 miles13
Charlotte Park7.4 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122547420The 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 288991. 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.