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Silver Palm Place, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Princeton-Goulds census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33170. The Survey maps it on the Goulds quadrangle.

Silver Palm Place within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Silver Palm Place, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Silver Palm Place, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

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

541 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 541 fires within 5 miles of Silver Palm Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,670 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 185 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/incendiarism185
Equipment and vehicle use104
Railroad operations and maintenance100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning44
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural10
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresEverglades National Park197/184 DOF
5 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDJ FIRE
2 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBANANA (13)
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresEverglades National Park172/168 DOF
12 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTIRE (13(

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade 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 Silver Palm Place: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Eureka PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Naranja Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade 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
Redland1.7 miles16
Silver Palm1.7 miles16
Aladdin City1.8 miles16
Naranja3.4 miles16
Princeton3.5 miles16
Modello3.6 miles16
Inlikita3.7 miles16
Vehlin3.9 miles16

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 Q122599112The 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 2077209. 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.