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Belandville, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Munson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32570. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane Lake quadrangle.

Belandville within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1948 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belandville, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Belandville, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Belandville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,048 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 49 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
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning18
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service57-191 FIRE-0845
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism125 acresFlorida Forest ServiceS34 (57)
20 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHARLES BOOKER ROAD (46)
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning551 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJOSHUA LANE (57)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa 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
McLellan2.0 miles13
Santa Maria2.3 miles12
Sellersville4.3 miles13
Simmons Crossing7.7 miles13
Munson8.7 miles14
Fidelis9.8 miles14
Berrydale10.4 miles14
Whitfield12.8 miles14

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 Q122588348The 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 305269. 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.