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Vizcaya Lakes, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Port Charlotte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33953. It stands on Huckaby Creek. The Survey maps it on the El Jobean quadrangle.

Vizcaya Lakes within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vizcaya Lakes, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Vizcaya Lakes, surveyed 1956

On record in Vizcaya Lakes

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

749 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 749 fires within 5 miles of Vizcaya Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,077 acres in total. 180 started naturally. 70 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
Equipment and vehicle use235
Natural180
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Misuse of fire by a minor77
Arson/incendiarism70
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Recreation and ceremony21
Debris and open burning18
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks7
Smoking2

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceYORK AVE (08)
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-EL JOBEAN PARK FIRE-0452
28 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-TIPPECANOE ONE FIRE-0454
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-NOLE FIRE-0441
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte 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
El Jobean0.7 miles13
Murdock4.3 miles11
Sancassa5.6 miles12
Port Charlotte6.4 miles13
Grove City7.4 miles12
New Point Comfort7.5 miles12
Rotonda7.5 miles12
Shaefer7.6 miles12

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 Q122550339The 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 2451953. 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.