Whispering Hills Golf Estates, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Titusville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32780. The Survey maps it on the Titusville quadrangle.

Whispering Hills Golf Estates within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whispering Hills Golf Estates, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Whispering Hills Golf Estates, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1949 USGS Titusville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1952 USGS Titusville quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Titusville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Whispering Hills Golf Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,035 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 14 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
Natural	50
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
26 September 2016	Natural	120 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	TEAL
20 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	WEST GATOR CREEK FIRE
10 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	95
8 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 August 1993	Debris and open burning	364 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	SPEARS
6 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	ST JOHNS
4 August 2006	Natural	15 acres	St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge	S.E.P.
4 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	46 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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 Whispering Hills Golf Estates: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fredrick Renaud Co. - Renaud Pit	Sand	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Titusville	1.4 miles	14
Indian River City	2.7 miles	14
La Grange	2.9 miles	13
South Titusville	3.1 miles	14
Jay Jay	3.5 miles	13
East Mims	4.4 miles	13
Mims	5.0 miles	13
Wiley	5.4 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 Q122541439

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 293190. 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.