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Port Laudania, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33004. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lauderdale South quadrangle.

Port Laudania within Broward County

Then and now

1949 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Port Laudania, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Port Laudania, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Port Laudania between 2009 and 2015, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 May 2015Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEMORIAL (6)
11 February 2009Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service900
23 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDUMP ( 06)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Port Laudania: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dania PitPeat, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pegram MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sterling Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Big Cypress PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gateway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Monarch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Rhodes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Snake Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
State Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Broward 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
Dania Beach0.9 miles16
Ravenswood Estates2.2 miles16
Port Everglades Junction2.4 miles16
Avon Park2.5 miles16
Port Everglades2.6 miles16
Harbor Heights2.7 miles18
Oak Point3.1 miles16
Lauderdale Harbors3.2 miles16

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 Q122561063The 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 298924. 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.