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Abe Springs, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Blountstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32424. It stands on Juniper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frink quadrangle.

Abe Springs within Calhoun County

Then and now

1945 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Abe Springs, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Abe Springs, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

81 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Abe Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,236 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning24
Natural16
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceS A BRYANT RD (07)
21 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVER RD (7)
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWRENNIE MOODY (07)
28 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service07/BAILEY ROAD2007-02-0931
28 August 1998Debris and open burning7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2010Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service07/DEES FIRE-0478
7 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOLSOMBAKE ( 07 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Abe Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
White Construction Company, Inc. - Glenn Warren MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abe Springs in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2018Thunderstorm WindAbe Springs$1,000A tree was blown down onto a power lines just south of County Road 275.
September 2024Flash FloodAbe Springs-Juniper Creek at County Road 5 was underwater.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAbe Springs-Several trees were blown down across Highway 71.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Sharpstown2.5 miles15
Frink3.5 miles14
Fisher Corner3.8 miles14
Gaskins4.3 miles14
New Hope4.4 miles15
Ocheeseulga (historical)4.9 miles15
Scotts Ferry4.9 miles14
Clarksville5.3 miles14

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 Abe SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4666441The 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 295089. 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.