BlockSmallpox Tommies Old Place, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies near Big Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Fortymile Bend quadrangle.
Then and now
1956 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1956 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Fortymile Bend quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Fortymile Bend quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Smallpox Tommies Old Place between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,029 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2019 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | DUCK (13) |
| 23 July 2000 | Natural | 1,000 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 1998 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | JETPORT |
| 13 May 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | K FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortymile Bend | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Mart Law Seminole Village | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Frog City | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Pops Hammock Seminole Village | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Coopertown | 12.5 miles | 9 | |
| Tenmile Corner | 16.4 miles | 9 | |
| Tamiami | 20.6 miles | 12 | |
| The Hammocks | 21.0 miles | 16 |
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 Q122562026 | The 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 295634. 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.