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Sylvan Shores, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Placid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33852. The Survey maps it on the Lake Placid quadrangle. 2,424 people lived here at the 2000 count.

Sylvan Shores within Highlands County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sylvan Shores, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sylvan Shores, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

350 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 350 fires within 5 miles of Sylvan Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,273 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 20 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 maintenance109
Debris and open burning53
Natural38
Equipment and vehicle use37
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking14
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Fireworks2

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
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDASHER (28)
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(HI) HARVEY (499)
20 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) ANTHROP (0701)
17 September 2005Debris and open burning3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHI-HUMMER FIRE-1193
15 September 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(HI) DRUMMOND (1182)
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHI-LAKE MIRROR FIRE & NOV-1180

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands 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
Highlands Park Estates1.8 miles14
Lake Placid2.1 miles14
Sunvale4.0 miles14
Marland5.5 miles13
Parker Island5.5 miles13
Placid Lakes6.3 miles13
Istokpoga6.6 miles14
Kuhlman6.7 miles14

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 Sylvan ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668989The 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 2407604. 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.