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Wabasso Beach, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32963. It lies near Michael Island. The Survey maps it on the Sebastian quadrangle. 2,194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Wabasso Beach within Indian River County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wabasso Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Wabasso Beach, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Wabasso Beach grew from 1,853 to 2,194 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,853
20202,194+341 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Wabasso Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 705 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Natural20
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(IR) GOLF COURSE (0685)
21 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service140
21 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(IR) BENT PINE (694)
9 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service1132-IR-FIRE
30 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2018Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANDRIDGE (31)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River 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 Wabasso Beach: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Henry Fischer & Sons,Inc. - Vickers MineSandUnknown
Henry Fischer and Son Sand Co. -Yellow Sand PitSandProducer

Every working 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
Orchid1.1 miles17
North Beach1.8 miles17
Wabasso2.3 miles19
Winter Beach3.3 miles19
Indian River Shores3.4 miles19
Cummings4.0 miles17
Sebastian5.2 miles17
Gifford6.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Wabasso BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2451277The 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 292802. 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.