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Belmore, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Keystone Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32656. The Survey maps it on the Kingsley quadrangle.

Belmore within Clay County

Then and now

1942 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belmore, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Belmore, surveyed 1942

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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Belmore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,297 acres in total. 50 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
Natural50
Debris and open burning35
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2010Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service10 GIZZARD 2010-07-0477
30 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(10) CAMPO ROAD
25 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural21 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Belmore: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
Unnamed Titanium DepositTitaniumProspect

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belmore in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBelmore$3,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBelmore$10A wet down burst caused some minor wind damage including breaking off tree limbs of 4 inches or less in diameter. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBelmore-Trees were significantly damaged by thunderstorm winds east of Keystone Heights. Trees were also blown down into the power lines.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBelmore-A tree and power lines were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBelmore-A tree was blown down across County Road 315C. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBelmore-Clay electric reported multiple sites with power lines downed by trees and large limbs across Clay and northern Putnam county.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindBelmore-A power line was snapped near Sharron Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2008HailBelmore-A resident on Wild Horse Loop observed golf ball size hail.
March 2003HailBelmore-Hail covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Penney Farms7.9 miles14
Kingsley Beach8.2 miles13
Kingsley8.4 miles13
Loch Lommond8.4 miles16
Kingsley Village8.6 miles17
Pass Station9.3 miles14
Park of the Palms9.8 miles16
Lake Geneva9.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295126. 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.

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.