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Winter Beach, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vero Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32967. It lies near Hole in the Wall Island. The Survey maps it on the Vero Beach quadrangle. 3,136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Winter Beach within Indian River County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

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 Winter Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Winter Beach, surveyed 1949

Population over time

3 figures

Winter Beach grew from 965 to 3,136 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000965
20102,067+1,102 (+114%)
20203,136+1,069 (+52%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Winter Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 774 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(IR) GOLF COURSE (0685)
8 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceAVIATION (31)
6 September 1999Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service140
21 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Indian River 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 Winter Beach: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Henry Fischer and Son Sand Co. -Yellow Sand PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Indian River 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
Indian River Shores1.9 miles19
Wabasso2.2 miles19
Gifford3.1 miles19
Wabasso Beach3.3 miles17
Orchid3.7 miles17
North Beach4.8 miles17
Vero Beach5.7 miles19
Cummings5.8 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on Winter BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570495The 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 293422. 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.