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Tropical Park, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Merritt Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32953. The Survey maps it on the Courtenay quadrangle. 2,013 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Tropical Park within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

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 Tropical Park, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Tropical Park, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Tropical Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 702 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 30 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
Natural39
Arson/incendiarism30
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
24 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBELLVIEW (05)
6 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeEXPLORER
29 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.1 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAILBOAT (O5)
29 August 2003Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-12-1096 (05)
27 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1999Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tropical Park: 1 unknown, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kings Park PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
W W G Asphalt Company, Inc. - ArabethClayProducer
Wwg Asphalt Company, Inc. - Arabeth MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Brevard 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
Indianola1.3 miles13
Cocoa2.1 miles13
Rockledge2.3 miles12
City Point3.3 miles14
Angel City3.3 miles12
Footman3.5 miles12
North Merritt Island3.8 miles13
Audubon4.6 miles13

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 Tropical ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106696127The 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 2805195. 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.