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Bay City, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Apalachicola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32320. It stands on Poorhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackson River quadrangle.

Bay City within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bay City, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bay City, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Bay City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,038 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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 use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural14
Debris and open burning11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) HATHCOCK FIRE
25 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) PARADISE FIRE
21 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHIRD STREET FIRE
7 August 2006Natural425 acresFlorida Forest Service730
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE MARSH (19)--0495
31 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay City in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2013Thunderstorm WindBay City$25,000Several trees and power lines were blown down on Rosemont Drive. Numerous transformers were blown around Apalachicola, Eastpoint, and St. George Island. Power was cut to the stoplight in Apalachicola. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBay City$20,000One home was damaged in the vicinity of Old Bluff Road with a tree limb flying through a window. Trees and power lines were also blown down across the county. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBay City$500A single tree was blown down on Rosemont Street with no other damage reported in the county.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBay City-A tree was blown down at 69 Gibson Road.
September 2011Heavy RainBay City-A 72 hour rainfall total of 5.90 inches was reported by the Florida COOP site APLF1.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Franklin0.7 miles16
Apalachicola2.9 miles17
Two Mile3.0 miles16
Tilton3.5 miles16
Achackwaithle (historical)4.7 miles16
Nine Mile6.0 miles16
Magnolia Bluffs6.6 miles17
Hays Place7.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295114. 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.

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.