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Broad Branch, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32466. It stands on Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Broad Branch quadrangle.

Broad Branch within Calhoun County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Broad Branch, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Broad Branch, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Broad Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
30 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service07/LULA CAMP RD-0625
11 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROAD ONE (07)
8 July 1992Natural150 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2019Natural57 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROAD #1 (07)
4 July 2019Natural34 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCC RD 17 (07)
20 July 2002Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2000Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2019Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCO RD 19 (07)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broad Branch in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2021Thunderstorm WindBroad Branch$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down throughout Calhoun county.
January 2016Tornado (EF0)Broad Branch-Trees were blown down and a dual-pol tornadic debris signature was observed from KEVX radar along this track. No structural damage was reported in this very rural area. This tornado was rated EF0.
June 2021HailBroad Branch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Kinard2.7 miles14
Frink5.8 miles14
Fisher Corner6.4 miles14
Abe Springs8.7 miles14
Scotts Ferry8.8 miles14
Gaskins9.0 miles14
Iolee (historical)9.1 miles14
Rollins Corner9.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295153. 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.