South Patrick, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Indialantic-Melbourne Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32937. It lies near Tortoise Island. The Survey maps it on the Tropic quadrangle.

South Patrick within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The 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 sheet of South Patrick, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of South Patrick, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1949 USGS Tropic quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Tropic quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of South Patrick between 1993 and 2012, burning about 651 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
7 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 July 2008	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	HONEYBROOK (05)
27 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 July 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 July 2000	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
South Patrick Shores	0.8 miles	12
Satellite Beach	1.6 miles	12
Tropic	2.6 miles	12
Palm Shores	3.2 miles	15
Mobiland by the Sea	3.4 miles	15
Sherman Park	3.4 miles	15
Indian Harbour Beach	3.5 miles	12
Canova Beach	4.2 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 Q122563591

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 291404. 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.