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Trail City, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Cape Sable census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. The Survey maps it on the Fiftymile Bend quadrangle.

Trail City within Monroe County

Then and now

1956 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trail City, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Trail City, surveyed 1956

Compare 1956 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Trail City between 1996 and 2018, burning about 10,801 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 2015Natural520 acresBig Cypress National PreserveRISELO
29 July 2001Natural1.4 acresBig Cypress National PreserveLOST WIND
29 July 2001Natural51 acresBig Cypress National PreserveBALL 2
18 July 1996Natural1.5 acresBig Cypress National PreserveLOST
11 July 2015Naturalunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveWITT
5 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBig Cypress National PreserveCULVERT
25 June 2007Natural7.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveSOUTH LOOP
18 June 2014Natural1.0 acresBig Cypress National PreserveLIGHTNING PACES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Pinecrest3.2 miles9
Trail Center7.1 miles12
Chatham13.5 miles9
The Watson Place13.6 miles9
Walter Hamilton Place16.8 miles9
Leon Hamilton Place19.9 miles9
Flamingo42.9 miles11
Grayvik48.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 299975. 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.