Battle Ground Forks, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Freeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32455. The Survey maps it on the Redbay quadrangle.
Then and now
1949 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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 Redbay quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Redbay quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Marianna quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Redbay quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
125 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Battle Ground Forks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,956 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BLACK CREEK # 2 |
| 14 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BLACK CREEK # 3 |
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | 66 - DON GRAFF RD & WHITE OAK |
| 4 July 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 66/MONROE-0849 |
| 2 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Battle Ground Forks: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spears Camp Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Clay Deposit | Clay | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Miller Bend | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Redbay | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Knox Hill | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Old Bay View | 9.7 miles | 16 | |
| Freeport | 9.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rock Hill | 10.6 miles | 16 | |
| Bunker | 10.7 miles | 16 |
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 Q122547906 | 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 295112. 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.







