Trailtown, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Everglades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34141. The Survey maps it on the Monroe Station quadrangle.

Trailtown within Collier 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 Trailtown, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet of Trailtown, surveyed 1956

Compare 1956 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Monroe Station quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1995 USGS Monroe Station quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Trailtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,591 acres in total. 18 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
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	GRIMEY
25 August 2015	Natural	60 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	MONROE
16 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	Q10OASIS
13 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	11MILE
13 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	CUBAN ROAD
12 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	CON CLUB
3 July 2012	Natural	150 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	LOOP PINES
29 July 2001	Natural	2.4 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	BALL 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Grocery Place

Every fire recorded in Collier 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ochopee	15.2 miles	10
Turkey Foot	16.0 miles	11
Wagon Wheel	17.0 miles	11
Plantation Island	18.2 miles	11
Chokoloskee	18.2 miles	11
Carnestown	18.5 miles	10
Copeland	18.9 miles	10
Everglades City	18.9 miles	10

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 Q122545013

The 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 294950. 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.