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Washington Park, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Southwest Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33471. The Survey maps it on the Moore Haven quadrangle.

Washington Park within Glades County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Washington Park, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Washington Park, surveyed 1956

On record in Washington Park

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 11 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Washington Park between 1992 and 2018, burning about 582 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresFlorida Forest Service(GL) DEUCE (1443)
28 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGL- RV FIRE-991
2 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(GL) MALELUCCA FIRE (411)
1 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHICPOCHEE (22)
22 May 2017Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIM CANAL (22)
20 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service(GL) RIVER ROAD (702)
16 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(GL) GLADES INN (511)
1 May 2017Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAGAN (22)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glades 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
Moore Haven0.6 miles11
Benbow3.2 miles11
Liberty Point6.2 miles12
Monkey Box6.6 miles11
Shawnee8.3 miles12
Fort Centre8.5 miles12
Lakeport9.4 miles12
Sarasota Colony11.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 292913. 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.