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West Eau Gallie, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Melbourne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32935. The Survey maps it on the Eau Gallie quadrangle.

West Eau Gallie within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

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 West Eau Gallie, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of West Eau Gallie, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of West Eau Gallie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,170 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 23 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 use48
Natural30
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
7 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUGAR PINE (5)
22 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWER LINE (05)
16 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSARNO (05)
8 August 1993Natural70 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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
Aurora0.7 miles15
Eau Gallie2.2 miles15
Sherman Park2.8 miles15
Mobiland by the Sea3.1 miles15
Melbourne Gardens3.1 miles16
Melbourne Village3.5 miles16
Palm Shores3.5 miles15
Tropic3.6 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 Q122597509The 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 293059. 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.