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Tenmile Corner, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33034. The Survey maps it on the Panther Mound quadrangle.

Tenmile Corner within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

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 Tenmile Corner, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Tenmile Corner, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Tenmile Corner between 1993 and 2020, burning about 37,967 acres in total. 30 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
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2015Natural10 acresEverglades National ParkBEAR FO
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresBig Cypress National PreserveDOGWOOD
17 September 2019Natural12 acresEverglades National ParkTWIN HAMMOCKS 2
6 August 2003Natural781 acresEverglades National ParkLOSTMANS
6 August 2002Natural1.2 acresBig Cypress National PreserveBOUNDARY
16 August 2019Natural10 acresEverglades National ParkTWIN HAMMOCKS
10 August 2005Naturalunder an acreEverglades National ParkFOUND OUT5
1 August 2018Natural11 acresBig Cypress National PreserveIRON POT NORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Pops Hammock Seminole Village7.0 miles10
Fortymile Bend10.2 miles12
Smallpox Tommies Old Place16.4 miles12
Frog City16.9 miles9
Coopertown18.6 miles9
Inlikita19.9 miles16
Redland20.4 miles16
Silver Palm Place20.9 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.

Wikipedia article on Tenmile CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q123338983The 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 295670. 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.