Verandah, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33905. The Survey maps it on the Olga quadrangle.

Verandah 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 Verandah, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Verandah, surveyed 1956

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.

1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Olga quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Fort Myers quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Verandah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,463 acres in total. 113 started naturally. 17 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	113
Railroad operations and maintenance	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Arson/incendiarism	17
Recreation and ceremony	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Fireworks	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	2

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
9 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WESTGATE (36)
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	36/0506-NOV
25 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 September 1992	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
10 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SUNSHINE (36)

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
Fort Myers Shores	1.2 miles	13
Buckingham	1.3 miles	13
Olga	2.3 miles	13
Morse Shores	3.1 miles	14
Alta Vista Park Mobille Home Park	3.8 miles	14
Telegraph Estates	3.9 miles	13
Tice	4.1 miles	14
Bayshore	4.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806012. 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.