Walter Hamilton Place, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cape Sable census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33034. It stands on Toms Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lostmans River Ranger Station quadrangle.

Walter Hamilton Place within Monroe County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

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 Walter Hamilton Place, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Walter Hamilton Place, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Lostmans River Ranger Station quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Walter Hamilton Place between 1992 and 2017, burning about 11,053 acres in total. 23 started naturally. None was 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	23

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
10 September 1992	Natural	124 acres	Everglades National Park	SECOND BAY
8 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Everglades National Park	TOM
6 August 2008	Natural	1.2 acres	Everglades National Park	FOUND OUT #7
6 August 2008	Natural	149 acres	Everglades National Park	FOUND OUT #6
6 August 2002	Natural	17 acres	Everglades National Park	NATRLOUT03
29 August 2013	Natural	13 acres	Everglades National Park	LOST LAKE
23 August 1996	Natural	596 acres	Everglades National Park	LOSTMAN #2
13 August 2017	Natural	2.0 acres	Everglades National Park	MCLAUGHLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Leon Hamilton Place

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Leon Hamilton Place	3.1 miles	9
The Watson Place	11.2 miles	9
Chatham	11.4 miles	9
Trail City	16.8 miles	12
Pinecrest	17.9 miles	9
Trail Center	23.1 miles	12
Flamingo	31.6 miles	11
Jewfish	48.9 miles	13

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 Q122559351

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 294965. 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.