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Telegraph Estates, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33920. It stands on Telegraph Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olga quadrangle.

Telegraph Estates within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Telegraph Estates, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Telegraph Estates, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Telegraph Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,626 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 15 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
Natural56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
20 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-17-1102
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(36) RAIN FIRE
20 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROCKING CHAIR (36)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Telegraph Estates: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Fugate Constr. - Number One MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Olga1.6 miles13
Fort Myers Shores3.4 miles13
Verandah3.9 miles13
Alva4.3 miles13
Buckingham4.6 miles13
Charleston Park6.0 miles13
Morse Shores6.8 miles14
Bayshore7.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122562008The 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 294944. 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.