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Sandalfoot Cove, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Sunshine Parkway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33433. The Survey maps it on the West Dixie Bend quadrangle. 16,582 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Sandalfoot Cove within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

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 Sandalfoot Cove, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Sandalfoot Cove, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Sandalfoot Cove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 August 1994Natural5.0 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSPOT
7 June 2002Naturalunder an acreArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeNATURALOUT
7 June 2002Natural40 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeBOUDREAUX
26 June 2012Smoking3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUGAR SAND PARK ( 50 )
27 May 2012Natural2.0 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSITE 1
13 May 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHILLSBORO DRIVE .(06)
12 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTENT POLE (6)
12 May 2008Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALMOST FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sandalfoot Cove: 10 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
101 Sand PitSilicaProducer
Cypress Head PitSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pompand PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deerfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Desrocher Sand and Rock - Desrocher PitSandProducer
Griffin Brothers - Rock Quarry Number 2SandProducer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
Boca Pointe1.5 miles16
Boca Del Mar2.2 miles16
Mission Bay2.4 miles16
Hamptons at Boca Raton3.0 miles16
Boca West3.2 miles16
Paradise Palms3.4 miles16
Whisper Walk3.9 miles16
Floresta4.6 miles17

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 Sandalfoot CoveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2418764The 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 1867199. 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.