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Rock Harbor, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Upper Keys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33037. It lies near Pelican Key. The Survey maps it on the Rock Harbor quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Rock Harbor within Monroe County

Then and now

1947 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock Harbor, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Rock Harbor, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rock Harbor in 2011, burning under an acre 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
Natural1

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
23 March 2011Naturalunder an acreEverglades National Park102 BAYSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rock Harbor: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Keystone Products - Noel MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Monroe Pit 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tavernier PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Upper Keys Marine Constr. - Noel PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Harbor in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 tornado, 2 waterspout, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
November 1998Tornado (F0)Rock Harbor$50,000A tornado touched down just west of U.S. 1 near mile marker 98. Damage occurred to the roof of a house and to foliage.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRock Harbor$2,000A few trees and utility lines were downed on the oceanside of the Overseas Highway near Mile Marker 96.3.
June 2024FloodRock Harbor-Widespread street flooding with water 3 to 4 inches deep on several sections of northbound U.S. Highway 1 occurred due to heavy rainfall. The most significantly impacted locations included mile markers 97 to 100 and mile markers 103 to 105.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Rock Harbor-A non-supercell-spawned waterspout was observed to have made landfall on the Atlantic side of Key Largo in the Silver Shores Community. A spray ring was visible with the waterspout prior to landfall. Photos revealed damage to a dock railing and a snapped mature coconut palm tree, but no damage to nearby homes was observed. Based on all available information, the tornado was rated EF-0 with maximum winds of 60 to 70 mph.
July 2017FloodRock Harbor-The Monroe County Sheriffs Office reported U.S. Highway One northbound lanes flooded due to heavy rain. A nearby Weather Underground mesonet station reported 2.74 inches of rainfall.
August 2001WaterspoutRock Harbor-Waterspout observed 1 mile northwest of Rock Harbor near Buttonwood Sound.
September 1999WaterspoutRock Harbor-Waterspout 1 mile north of Rock Harbor
September 1999Tornado (F0)Rock Harbor-Waterspout moved onshore as a tornado. Only minor tree damage was observed in Rock Harbor.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindRock Harbor-Only minor damage to roofs...shutters and awnings occurred and no dollar amount of the damage was available.

Every storm 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
Key Largo1.0 miles15
Key Largo Park2.4 miles15
Newport2.4 miles15
Sunset Point2.6 miles15
Thompson2.9 miles15
Tavernier5.4 miles11
Anglers Park5.5 miles13
Plantation Key Colony7.0 miles4

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.

Wikipedia article on Rock HarborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7354449The 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 289820. 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.