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Barker Store, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Holmes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32464. It stands on Angelico Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hobbs Crossroads quadrangle.

Barker Store within Holmes 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 Barker Store, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Barker Store, surveyed 1949

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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Barker Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAKER POND II (30)
5 September 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service30/ HWY 179A-0507
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service30/TEXAS LANE-0571
20 September 2010Other causes1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service30/HWY 179A WEST -0545
26 August 2000Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAKER POND (30)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Barker Store: 7 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Revelle Sand Co. - Carryville PlantSandProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Hudson Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Melson Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositsClayProspect
Unnamed Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barker Store in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 3 flood, 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBarker Store$1,000Trees were blown down across Highway 81.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBarker Store-A tree was blown down onto power lines along Circle N Lane.
April 2021Flash FloodBarker Store-Highway 81 and Highway 2 were underwater.
February 2018FloodBarker Store-Water was reported over the roadway along Highway 2 east of Highway 163. This was caused by a long duration of moderate to occasionally heavy rain.
February 2018FloodBarker Store-Water was reported over the roadway along Brackin Road. A small creek intersects with this road. This was caused by a long duration of moderate to occasionally heavy rain.
January 2017FloodBarker Store-Brackin Road was closed due to flooding. This was due to a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Holmes 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
Hobbs Crossroads2.3 miles16
New Hope3.0 miles16
Baker Settlement3.3 miles14
Hudson3.9 miles14
Izagora4.0 miles15
Prosperity4.6 miles14
Arrant Settlement4.9 miles14
Pittman5.4 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 Q122597148The 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 295109. 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.