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Brock Crossroad, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Chipley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32428. It stands on Gully Branch. The Survey maps it on the Poplar Head quadrangle.

Brock Crossroad within Washington County

Then and now

1950 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brock Crossroad, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Brock Crossroad, surveyed 1950

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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Brock Crossroad between 1992 and 2019, burning about 741 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning38
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePICKRON ROAD (30)
24 September 1997Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBEDIE ROAD (67)
7 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDOTTIE WEST LN (67)
6 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-02-1024
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCOLEMAN HILL #1 (67)
25 August 2000Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCHESTNUT ROAD (67)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Brock Crossroad: 13 prospects, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand, 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
Coleman Limestone DepositLimestone, DimensionProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White Constr. - Trawick MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
C.W. Roberts Contr. Co. - Washington PitSandProducer
M & O Sand & Fill Equip SandhillsSandProducer
Unnamed Clay DepositClayPast Producer
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Unnamed Clay PitClayUnknown
Berry N G Limestone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Hinson and CorcoranStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brock Crossroad in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2020Tornado (EF2)Brock Crossroad$250,000Initial damage was noted near the intersection of Owen Place and Piney Grove Roads. From the touchdown point, damage, consisting of hundreds of snapped and uprooted trees, was continuous right to the Jackson County border along Corbin Rd. The tornado|intensified as it moved across Jackson County. In addition to downing many hundreds of trees there was significant structural damage at two locations. The first was at a farm off Farren Ranch Road where a two story outbuilding/home was completely|destroyed with debris thrown several hundred yards. The second was along Bethlehem Rd. south of Kynesville Rd. where several mobile homes suffered significant damage. One of the mobile homes was completely destroyed with it's frame wrapped into a tree. |Fortunately the mobile home was vacant at the time.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBrock Crossroad$3,000A power line was blown down at 1945 Cane Mill Road.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindBrock Crossroad$1,000A tree was blown down near Hard Labor Road as well as Brooks Bay Road.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindBrock Crossroad$1,000A tree was blown down near Bonnett Pond Rd. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2024Flash FloodBrock Crossroad-Flooding was reported around the Clayton Road bridge near Johnson Road.
August 2021Flash FloodBrock Crossroad-A portion of Clayton Road was reported underwater.
April 2014Flash FloodBrock Crossroad-Flooding was reported on Clayton Road from heavy rainfall in a short period of time.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Poplar Head2.1 miles13
Johnson Crossroad3.3 miles13
Bells Mill3.5 miles14
Wausau4.6 miles14
Bradford4.8 miles14
Sylvania5.6 miles14
Vernon6.4 miles14
Five Points6.6 miles13

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 Q122566644The 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 294696. 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.