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Bevilles Corner, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bushnell-Center Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33514. The Survey maps it on the Bushnell quadrangle.

Bevilles Corner within Sumter County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bevilles Corner, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Bevilles Corner, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

63 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Bevilles Corner between 1995 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service747(60)
20 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/OAK TREE FIRE/0779
26 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/BATTLEFIELD FIRE/0768
7 May 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOTTING SOIL (60)
29 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/722 FIRE-0657
22 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSE 5TH TERRACE (60)
21 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCR 702 (60)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bevilles Corner: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Central Florida Excavating - Brown Fish PondSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Center Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Center Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Florida Crushed Stone - Center Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
L.J.Stephens Transp., Centerhill QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bevilles Corner in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBevilles Corner$15,000EM reported minor impacts to homes along SE 27th Terrace between Bushnell and Webster, primarily consisting of shingle and awning damage.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBevilles Corner$1,500Sumter County Emergency Management reported a snapped power pole at the intersection of SR 471 and CR 476. There was also a barn in the area that had its roof torn off.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Carver2.6 miles15
Webster2.7 miles13
Lincoln Park2.9 miles15
Bushnell3.3 miles15
Center Hill3.3 miles10
Oak Grove3.5 miles13
Pilaklakha (historical)3.9 miles10
Saint Catherine5.2 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 Q122569491The 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 278606. 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.