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Shawano, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33430. The Survey maps it on the Shawano quadrangle.

Shawano within Palm Beach 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 Shawano, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Shawano, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Shawano between 1994 and 2018, burning about 6,141 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
25 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1999Natural180 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeWESTSIDE
17 August 2011Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUMP HOUSE (50)
7 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2007Natural5,308 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSCARED ARMADILLO
4 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2018Natural614 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeLONE BIRD
21 June 2001Natural1.0 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeCHARLIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Browns Farm0.5 miles11
Sixmile Bend7.2 miles10
Ninemile Bend8.6 miles10
Twentymile Bend11.2 miles11
Okeelanta11.3 miles11
Belle Glade Camp11.5 miles12
Belle Glade12.2 miles12
Dahlberg12.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294922. 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.