Villages of Oriole, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Boynton Beach-Delray Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33446. The Survey maps it on the University Park quadrangle. 4,758 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Villages of Oriole within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1947 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Villages of Oriole, surveyed 1987

Topographic sheet of Villages of Oriole, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1947 USGS Delmar Farms quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Delmar Farms quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS University Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Fort Lauderdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Villages of Oriole between 1999 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	C-4
18 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MORIKAMI FIRE
6 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	NATURAL OUT 4
6 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	NATURAL OUT 5
5 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge	NATURAL OUT3
24 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MK2 (50)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
High Point	1.3 miles	16
Kings Point	1.4 miles	16
County Club Acres	1.6 miles	16
Franwood Pines	1.9 miles	17
Delray Gardens	2.0 miles	17
Dunes Road	2.4 miles	17
Sherwood Park	2.5 miles	17
Kingsland	2.7 miles	17

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 Villages of Oriole	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2056388	The 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 1867222. 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.