Shell Island, Florida

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.

1956 1987

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.

• 1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Belle Meade quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Naples quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Shell Island between 1992 and 2019, burning about 851 acres in total. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Old Marco Junction
• Isles of Capri
• Pelican Lake Motorcoach Resort
• Belle Meade
• Grocery Place
• Marco

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shell Island: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, 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.

Every working recorded in Collier County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295620. 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.