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South Beach, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32963. It lies near Shell Island. The Survey maps it on the Indrio quadrangle. 3,703 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5 feet above sea level.

South Beach within Indian River 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 South Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of South Beach, surveyed 1948

Population over time

3 figures

South Beach grew from 3,457 to 3,703 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20003,457
20103,501+44 (+1%)
20203,703+202 (+6%)

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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of South Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,130 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 27 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
Railroad operations and maintenance40
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism27
Natural24
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1

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
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFIRST STREET (31)
12 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1997Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1996Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2016Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSNAG (31)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Beach: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Titanium, Zirconium, Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Frank Stewert Trucking - Tozour Road MineSandProducer
Riz Mineral Co. MineTitanium, ZirconiumPast Producer
Vero Beach PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerKyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Indian River 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
Oslo1.9 miles16
Florida Ridge2.4 miles16
Nevins2.6 miles16
Poinciana Park3.4 miles16
Royal Poinciana Park3.4 miles16
Riomar3.8 miles16
Vero Beach4.3 miles19
Gifford6.8 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on South BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570675The 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 1867204. 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.