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Sunrise Harbor, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kendall-Palmetto Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33133. It lies near Isla Grande. The Survey maps it on the Key Biscayne quadrangle.

Sunrise Harbor within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunrise Harbor, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sunrise Harbor, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Harbor between 1992 and 2018, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 June 2011Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNSET (13)
8 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2003Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 April 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 February 2013Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNSET ( 13 )
2 December 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 November 1997Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunrise Harbor: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Oolite Rock Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tropical Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade 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
Coconut Grove0.7 miles14
Gables Estates1.1 miles14
Coral Gables1.5 miles14
Ocean View Heights2.2 miles16
South Bay Estates2.4 miles16
South Miami2.4 miles14
The Pines2.8 miles16
Silver Bluff Estates3.1 miles16

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 Q122560530The 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 291854. 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.