Baxter, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1918 1994

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.

• 1918 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Baxter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,757 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 46 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Taylor

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 104 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baxter between 1902 and 1975: 86 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, A.E. Daugherty, Albert Hazen Wright and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Fomitopsis palustris (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Gilb. & Ryvarden	1902	R. M. Harper	About a 1.2 mile N of Moniac
	Polyporus palustris Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1902	Harper R. M.	Moniac
	Enneacanthus Gill, 1864	1921	Francis Harper	Moniac
	Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)	1921	Francis Harper	St. Mary's R., 7 mi. S of Moniac, GA
	Polioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1921	Francis Harper	St. Mary's River, 10 miles south of Moniac
	Anolis carolinensis Voigt, 1832	1922	Albert Hazen Wright	Folkston, S of Chesser School, Fence Pond South of School
	Bufo quercicus Holbrook, 1840	1922	Albert Hazen Wright	Fence Pond, S of Chesser School
	Notophthalmus perstriatus (Bishop, 1941)	1922	Albert Hazen Wright	pond 1/2 mi. S Fence Pond
	Rana areolata Baird & Girard, 1852	1922	Albert Hazen Wright	pond 1/2 mi. S Fence Pond
	Sceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801)	1922	Albert Hazen Wright	Folkston, Fence pond.
	Terrapene carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1931	not recorded	MONIAC
	Procambarus kilbyi (Hobbs, 1940)	1938	Hobbs	1.4 mi. E. of Taylor Hwy. 5a at County line

All 104 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baxter in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Baker County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295113. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.