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Royal Country, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Miami Gardens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33055. The Survey maps it on the Opa-locka quadrangle.

Royal Country within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Royal Country, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Royal Country, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Royal Country between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,931 acres in total. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1999Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSKYJACK ( 06 )
14 August 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2018Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKIWI (13)
4 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFIREWORKS (6)
17 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Royal Country: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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
Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
A.J. Capeletti - No. 3 PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
L.W. Rozzo - HollywoodLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Broward Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dade Pit No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Indian Lakes PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miramar MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rozzo MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade 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
Country Club1.5 miles15
Lakewood Estates2.1 miles15
Miami Gardens2.6 miles15
Carol City2.6 miles15
Lake Lucerne2.7 miles15
Scott Lake3.3 miles15
Miami Lakes3.3 miles15
Bunche Park3.7 miles15

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 Q122553597The 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 2077252. 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.