Bessent, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1918 1981

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 Lawtey quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Maxville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Bessent between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,479 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 17 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:

• Steckert
• LaBuena
• McPherson
• Glen Saint Mary
• Macclenny
• Pine Top

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,343 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bessent between 1887 and 1975: 1,183 Animalia, 101 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A H Curtiss, A. H. Antonie, A. H. Curtiss 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
	Sphaerostilbe	1906	E.M. Berger	Macclenny
	Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.	1909	W.T. Swingle	Glen St. Mary
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1914	H. Hume	Glen Saint Mary
	Pinguicula caerulea Walter	1887	H.M.H.	Macclenny
	Osmunda regalis L.	1890	Alice J. Heading	Macclenny.<br/>
	Ludwigia linearis Walter	1897	A. H. Curtiss	McClenny.
	Schizachyrium tenerum Nees	1897	A. H. Curtiss	McClenny.
	Scleria distans Poir.	1897	A. H. Curtiss	Near Maclenny, Fla.
	Woodwardia angustifolia Sm.	1897	A. H. Curtiss	McClenny.
	Rorippa teres (Michx.) Stuckey	1899	L. H. Lighthipe	Low grounds, Glen St. Mary.
	Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkh.	1900	Curtiss, A.H.
	Elsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins	1904	Rolfs P. H.	Glen St. Mary

All 1,343 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bessent: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295129. 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.

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.