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West Jupiter Camping Resort, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Royal Palm Beach-West Jupiter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33478. The Survey maps it on the Rood quadrangle.

West Jupiter Camping Resort within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1948 to 1987

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 West Jupiter Camping Resort, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of West Jupiter Camping Resort, surveyed 1948

Compare 1948 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of West Jupiter Camping Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,606 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 2 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
Natural44
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
6 August 2010Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMACKDAIRY
21 August 2015Natural32 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOUNTY LINE (43)
19 August 2000Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2000Natural65 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2001Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1993Natural500 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Jupiter Camping Resort: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Dubois Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
Rood2.4 miles16
Limestone Creek5.2 miles16
Delta5.7 miles16
West Jupiter5.9 miles16
Tequesta6.2 miles16
North Palm Beach Heights6.7 miles16
Jupiter7.7 miles15
Salhaven8.1 miles15

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 Q122539783The 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 2449910. 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.