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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.

Battle Ground Forks within Walton 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 Battle Ground Forks, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Battle Ground Forks, surveyed 1949

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

125 since 1992

Regional 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 use36
Debris and open burning26
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism15
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
14 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLACK CREEK # 2
14 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLACK CREEK # 3
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest Service66 - DON GRAFF RD & WHITE OAK
4 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/MONROE-0849
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Spears Camp Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walton 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
Bruce2.4 miles16
Miller Bend4.1 miles16
Redbay6.1 miles13
Knox Hill9.5 miles15
Old Bay View9.7 miles16
Freeport9.9 miles16
Rock Hill10.6 miles16
Bunker10.7 miles16

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 Q122547906The 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.