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Poinciana Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the North Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33917. It stands on Daughtrey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers quadrangle.

Poinciana Estates within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Poinciana Estates, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Poinciana Estates, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

445 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Poinciana Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,342 acres in total. 91 started naturally. 31 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
Railroad operations and maintenance143
Natural91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism31
Recreation and ceremony28
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Fireworks2
Smoking2

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 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service36/THE HUNTER FIRE
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEL (36)
8 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

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 Poinciana Estates: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Colonial Dolomite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Suncoast Estates1.2 miles14
Salvista1.6 miles14
Bayshore1.7 miles14
Bayshore Manor1.8 miles14
Palmona Park2.6 miles14
Slater2.6 miles14
Tice2.7 miles14
Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park2.8 miles14

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 Q122547015The 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 2451211. 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.