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Viera, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cocoa-Rockledge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32940. The Survey maps it on the Eau Gallie quadrangle.

Viera within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Viera, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Viera, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Viera between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,265 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 7 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
Natural32
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHERON'S (05)
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance130 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Viera: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brevard Road Materials, Inc.Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Rockledge MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Bonaventure3.0 miles12
Pineda3.2 miles15
Lotus4.3 miles15
Georgiana4.4 miles12
Rockwell4.7 miles12
Palm Shores6.2 miles15
Footman6.3 miles12
Mobiland by the Sea6.5 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on VieraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7928396The 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 1989257. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.