Truckland, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33908. It lies near Connie Mack Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers Beach quadrangle.

Truckland 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 Truckland, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Truckland, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fort Myers Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Naples quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Truckland between 1992 and 2014, burning about 236 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 August 1998	Natural	50 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 July 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 July 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 June 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 June 1993	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 June 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 June 2007	Fireworks	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	36/ THE WINKLER FIRE
20 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	36/ THE OLD SOUTH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Iona	1.5 miles	15
Aspen Indian Creek Park	1.5 miles	14
Shell Point Village	2.0 miles	15
Harlem Heights	2.4 miles	15
Punta Rassa	2.5 miles	13
Fort Myers Beach	3.4 miles	14
Biggar	4.3 miles	15
Sanibel	4.5 miles	13

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 Q122571298

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 292486. 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.