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Bridgeport, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Palatka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32177. It stands on Bluff Branch. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle.

Bridgeport within Putnam County

Then and now

1947 to 1991

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 Bridgeport, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Bridgeport, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

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

194 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,686 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 18 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
Natural58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
28 September 2018Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGEPORT RD (54)
20 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePALMETTO(54)
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/MILLICAN RD FIRE
18 September 2016Natural49 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST CREEK 2 (54)
14 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/RUN AWAY FIRE
9 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1995Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2024Heavy RainBridgeport-The public measured 3.9 inches of rainfall along the St. Johns River near Cedar Creek Road in about 90 minutes.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Tree limbs were blown down along Kelly Smith Ranch Road off of West River Road.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Bridgeport-A waterspout developed over the St. Johns River north of Palatka and was spotted near Racy Point. The spout formed from a low level boundary collision between the east coast sea breeze and outflow from a severe storm moving northward from eastern Putnam County. There were sporadic reports of funnel clouds from U.S. Highway 17 then from State Road 207 around 5:55 pm however locations of the funnel cloud were given in various locations. There was no mesocyclone nor low level rotational signature on Doppler radar and environmental conditions were not favorable for mesocyclone tornadoes (i.e. no wind shear). There was no damage with the vortex and it never made landfall.
June 2010HailBridgeport-Penny size hail was reported along Kelly Smith Ranch Road off of West River Road.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Federal Point1.4 miles16
Clay Landing1.5 miles13
Fairview2.3 miles16
Bostwick3.8 miles14
Cypress Point4.0 miles16
Grandview4.0 miles16
Teasdale4.2 miles17
Patersonville4.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 279389. 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.

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.