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Pirates Cove, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Lower Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33042. It lies near Sugarloaf Key. The Survey maps it on the Sugarloaf Key quadrangle.

Pirates Cove within Monroe County

Then and now

1921 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pirates Cove, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Pirates Cove, surveyed 1921

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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Pirates Cove between 1993 and 2011, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Key Deer RefugeTRAILER FIRE
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2009-18-0234
3 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNational Key Deer RefugeLITTLE KNOCKEMDOWN
10 June 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pirates Cove: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Frank Keevan and Sons - Summerland Key MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Tarmac-Florida - Cudjoe KeyLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pirates Cove in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPirates Cove-A wind gust of 50 knots, or 58 mph, was measured on Cudjoe Key near the southern end of Sawyer Drive.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cudjoe Key1.7 miles5
Sugarloaf Shores2.5 miles9
Perky3.0 miles9
Summerland Key4.0 miles5
Bay Point4.4 miles9
El Chico8.5 miles7
Big Coppitt Key8.6 miles7
Big Pine Key8.6 miles4

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 Q15051636The 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 294386. 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.

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.