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Plantation, Florida

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1971 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Upper Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33070. It stands on Plantation Key. The Survey maps it on the Plantation Key quadrangle.

Plantation within Monroe County

Then and now

1971 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 18 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plantation, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Plantation, surveyed 1971

On record in Plantation

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Plantation: 1 producer. 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
Upper Keys Marine Constr. - Blue Waters PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working 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
Plantation Key0.2 miles4
Plantation Key Colony1.6 miles4
Tavernier3.1 miles11
Islamorada5.4 miles5
Thompson5.6 miles15
Sunset Point5.9 miles15
Matecumbe6.3 miles5
Rock Harbor8.5 miles15

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 Q49361034The 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 299990. 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.

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.