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Port Sewall, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stuart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34996. It stands on Saint Lucie River. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucie Inlet quadrangle.

Port Sewall within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 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 Sewall, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Port Sewall, surveyed 1948

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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Port Sewall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 390 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 12 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 minor25
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43)
7 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePRINCEWOOD (43)
21 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINE (43)
17 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSEACOAST (43)
1 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Port Sewall: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Jensen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Sewall in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPort Sewall-A trained spotter reported numerous downed branches that were 4 to 5 inches in diameter near Sewall's Point. Local broadcast media also reported a very large tree was knocked over on a property near Southeast Saint Lucie Boulevard in Stuart.

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Sewall's Point1.1 miles16
Seminole Shores1.3 miles16
Snug Harbor2.0 miles16
Golden Gate2.2 miles16
Port Salerno3.0 miles16
Coral Gardens3.4 miles16
Stuart3.4 miles17
Rio3.5 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 Q122564852The 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 299047. 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.