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Vero Palm Estates, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fellsmere census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32966. The Survey maps it on the South of Fellsmere quadrangle.

Vero Palm Estates within Indian River 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 Vero Palm Estates, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Vero Palm Estates, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Vero Palm Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,406 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 11 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
Natural80
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking4

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 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceAVIATION (31)
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAND LOT ( 31 )
19 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(IR) 58TH AVE FIRE (1461)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River 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
Royal Poinciana Park5.5 miles16
Poinciana Park5.5 miles16
Vero Beach5.6 miles19
Gifford5.8 miles19
Nevins6.4 miles16
Florida Ridge7.1 miles16
Oslo7.2 miles16
Winter Beach7.4 miles19

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 Q122552537The 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 2452613. 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.