Up the Grove Beach, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Okeechobee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34974. It stands on Henry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marcy quadrangle.

Up the Grove Beach within Okeechobee County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Up the Grove Beach, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Up the Grove Beach, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1953 USGS Marcy quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Okeechobee 4 NW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Up the Grove Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,256 acres in total. 34 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	34
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
28 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
14 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(OK) DOUGLAS FIRE (1372)
17 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 August 2006	Natural	32 acres	Florida Forest Service	(MA) WALPOLE (1310)
12 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okeechobee 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
Sherman	2.8 miles	15
Taylor Creek	4.4 miles	15
Cypress Quarters	7.0 miles	14
Okeechobee	7.2 miles	15
Barber Quarters	8.0 miles	14
Whispering Pines	9.2 miles	14
Basswood Estates	9.9 miles	14
Mildred	13.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307616. 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.