BlockRoyal Palm Hammock, Florida
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34114. The Survey maps it on the Royal Palm Hammock quadrangle.
Then and now
1956 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Royal Palm Hammock
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Bay City Walking Dredgelisted 2013 · 0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Royal Palm Hammock quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
124 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Royal Palm Hammock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 29,476 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 13 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 | 38 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WET GRASS (11) |
| 21 August 1995 | Natural | 175 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 1998 | Natural | 30 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Natural | 30 acres | Florida Forest Service | ZONE C (11) |
| 3 July 2012 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | FENCE LINE (11) |
| 28 July 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge | TRAILHEAD RV FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Grove | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Grocery Place | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Goodland | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Pelican Lake Motorcoach Resort | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Old Marco Junction | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Belle Meade | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Winding Cypress | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Isles of Capri | 7.2 miles | 12 |
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 Q122554441 | The 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 290033. 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.