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Turnbull, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Titusville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32754. The Survey maps it on the Mims quadrangle.

Turnbull within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Turnbull, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Turnbull, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Turnbull between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,593 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 18 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
Natural42
Equipment and vehicle use26
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 1996Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2007Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDAY OFF (05)
3 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeDITCH FIRE
27 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOUTBOARD (O5)
26 September 2018Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG TIRE - (05)
26 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHEECH (05)
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDELAYED (O5)
7 August 2015Natural160 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROAD ONE (05)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Holiday Village Travel Park0.9 miles13
Aurantia1.8 miles12
Wiley3.1 miles13
Mims3.2 miles13
East Mims4.0 miles13
Scottsmoor4.0 miles13
Jay Jay5.0 miles13
La Grange5.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295678. 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.