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Poincianna Place, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lake Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33467. The Survey maps it on the Greenacres City quadrangle.

Poincianna Place within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1945 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Poincianna Place, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Poincianna Place, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Poincianna Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 970 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
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
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE CATCHMEN COMMAND
6 July 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service110TH COMMAND FIRE
5 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePEARSON ROAD COMMAND
25 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service836
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
6 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST HILL COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Poincianna Place: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Hardrives Co. - Knollbroke PitSandProducer
Golden Lakes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lantan Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
Florida Gardens1.0 miles14
Greenacres City1.9 miles14
Hometown Lake Worth Village1.9 miles14
Palm Beach Farms3.3 miles14
Palm Springs3.6 miles16
Atlantis3.9 miles14
Seminole Manor4.2 miles14
West Palm Beach Farms4.3 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 Q122546483The 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 302691. 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.