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Royal Poinciana Park, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32962. The Survey maps it on the Oslo quadrangle.

Royal Poinciana Park within Indian River 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 Poinciana Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Royal Poinciana Park, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

287 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Royal Poinciana Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 33 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 maintenance56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Misuse of fire by a minor48
Natural44
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2

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
8 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceAVIATION (31)
6 September 1999Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMILLSTONE (31)
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFIRST STREET (31)
12 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Royal Poinciana Park: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Riz Mineral Co. MineTitanium, ZirconiumPast Producer
Vero Beach PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerKyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Indian River 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
Poinciana Park0.1 miles16
Nevins0.9 miles16
Vero Beach1.8 miles19
Oslo2.1 miles16
Florida Ridge2.4 miles16
Riomar3.3 miles16
South Beach3.4 miles16
Gifford4.4 miles19

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 Q122544940The 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 290041. 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.