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Vaughn, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Belle Glade-Pahokee census division. The Survey maps it on the Lake Harbor quadrangle.

Vaughn within Palm Beach 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 Vaughn, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Vaughn, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Vaughn between 1995 and 2011, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresSt. Johns National Wildlife RefugeGRADE COMMAND
10 March 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 December 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach 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
Mott3.9 miles11
Keela4.0 miles11
Watson4.5 miles11
Lake Harbor5.1 miles11
Bean City6.6 miles11
South Bay8.4 miles12
Okeelanta8.5 miles11
Dahlberg9.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294957. 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.