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West Dixie Bend, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Deerfield Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33073. The Survey maps it on the West Dixie Bend quadrangle.

West Dixie Bend within Broward County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Dixie Bend, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of West Dixie Bend, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 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.

Fires near this place

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of West Dixie Bend between 2002 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 June 2002Naturalunder an acreArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeNATURALOUT
7 June 2002Natural40 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeBOUDREAUX
27 May 2012Natural2.0 acresArthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeSITE 1
13 May 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHILLSBORO DRIVE .(06)
12 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTENT POLE (6)
12 May 2008Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALMOST FIRE
9 April 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGREEN ROAD (06)
5 April 2018Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANDY RIDGE ( 06 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of West Dixie Bend: 13 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
101 Sand PitSilicaProducer
Cypress Head PitSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Desrocher Sand and Rock - Desrocher PitSandProducer
Hardrives Co, - Loxahatchee RoadSandProducer
Ryan, Inc. - Lox Road MineSandUnknownSand
Sawgrass Mining - Sawgrass PitSandProducer
Deerfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pompand PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Dixie Bend in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2008: 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007LightningWest Dixie Bend1 killedA 24-year-old man was struck and killed by lightning while doing landscape work at a private residence in Parkland. The man was working with three other men when the lightning struck. It was not raining at the time, but there were dark storm clouds in the distance. None of the other men were injured.
June 2008HailWest Dixie Bend-A severe thunderstorm occurred over the City of Parkland producing hail the size of pennies.

Every storm recorded in Broward 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
Hillsboro Pines0.8 miles16
Hillsboro Ranches1.1 miles16
Parkland1.9 miles16
Lakeview2.5 miles16
West Deerfield Beach2.7 miles16
Crystal Lake3.9 miles16
Woodsetter North4.4 miles16
Coconut Creek4.6 miles16

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 Q122561283The 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 293055. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.