Brickyard, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32321. It stands on Brickyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forbes Island quadrangle.

Brickyard within Franklin County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brickyard, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Brickyard, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1944 USGS Forbes Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1945 USGS Forbes Island quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1949 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Port Saint Joe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Forbes Island quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Brickyard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,188 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 7 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
Natural	29
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	RING (19-5)
5 September 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	FORT GADSDEN CREEK
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	JUNIPER
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	82 acres	National Forests in Florida	135-A
28 August 2008	Natural	31 acres	National Forests in Florida	SMITH CREEK RD
23 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BLACK CREEK
2 August 2019	Natural	62 acres	National Forests in Florida	104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Fort Gadsden

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fort Gadsden	3.9 miles	16
Beverly	8.1 miles	16
Hays Place	9.3 miles	16
Achackwaithle (historical)	9.5 miles	16
Creels	11.4 miles	16
Bay City	14.2 miles	16
High Bluff	14.4 miles	17
Morgan Place	14.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305375. 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.