Rock Island, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. It stands on Rock Island Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Deep Lake quadrangle.

Rock Island within Collier 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 Rock Island, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Rock Island, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Deep Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Naples quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Rock Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63,439 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2007	Natural	15 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	RAILROAD
7 September 2007	Natural	15 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	ROCK ISLAND
6 September 2007	Natural	40 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	PRAIRIE
6 September 2007	Natural	272 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	LONE CHICKEN
23 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	DEEP LAKE
14 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge	LIGHTNING TREE AT E RAWS
5 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	DEEPLAKE
30 August 1994	Natural	27 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	TWIN LAKES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collier 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Miles City	2.9 miles	13
Deep Lake	4.8 miles	12
Jerome	8.0 miles	10
Golden Gates Estates	10.5 miles	13
Sunniland	10.8 miles	12
Copeland	11.0 miles	10
Lee Cypress	11.7 miles	10
Weavers Station	13.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295583. 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.