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Skyline Heights, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stuart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34957. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucie Inlet quadrangle.

Skyline Heights within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Skyline Heights, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Skyline Heights, surveyed 1948

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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Skyline Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 840 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 6 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
Natural22
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
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
9 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOLDEN ROD RD(43)
14 August 1996Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2012Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAVANNAH RD. (43)
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE PINES (43)
31 July 1998Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Skyline Heights: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jensen MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Martin 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
Jensen Beach0.5 miles15
Ocean Breeze Park0.9 miles16
Palm Lake Park2.0 miles17
Rio2.0 miles16
North River Shores3.1 miles17
Snug Harbor3.1 miles16
Sewall's Point3.6 miles16
Stuart3.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301136. 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.