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Bass Haven, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32092. The Survey maps it on the Picolata quadrangle.

Bass Haven within St. Johns County

Then and now

1947 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bass Haven, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Bass Haven, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Bass Haven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,663 acres in total. 36 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
Natural36
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
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 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-55-DEN STREET
5 August 2011Natural7.3 acresFlorida Forest ServicePACETTI DIRT MOUND (55)
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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
Picolata0.9 miles13
Pocotalaco (historical)2.0 miles13
Palmo2.9 miles13
Meldrim Park3.0 miles13
Saint Johns3.9 miles13
Florence4.4 miles13
Lane Landing5.1 miles13
Bakersville5.2 miles12

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 Q122550571The 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 307833. 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.