BlockSouth Cocoa Beach, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cocoa Beach-Cape Canaveral census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32931. The Survey maps it on the Cocoa Beach quadrangle.
Then and now
1949 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1949 USGS Cocoa Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Cocoa Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Cocoa Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of South Cocoa Beach between 1992 and 1997, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 April 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 April 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 April 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 March 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocoa Beach | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Lotus | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Georgiana | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Rockwell | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bonaventure | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Pineda | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Angel City | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| South Patrick Shores | 5.5 miles | 12 |
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 Q122596679 | 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 291359. 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.