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Broscan, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cross City South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32359. It stands on Boat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jena quadrangle.

Broscan within Dixie County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 Broscan, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Broscan, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

294 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 294 fires within 5 miles of Broscan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,509 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 63 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
Equipment and vehicle use99
Arson/incendiarism63
Natural46
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2014Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDIXIE CAMP MAINLINE #2 (15)
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCEDAR (15)
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service391 AVE (15)
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service15 - THE DUMPSTER FIRE - 0216
14 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMADDIE'S MARKET (62)
14 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service902 STREET (15)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixie County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Broscan: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dixie 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
Jena1.9 miles10
Stewart City2.5 miles11
Jonesboro3.2 miles10
Hines6.9 miles10
Shamrock10.9 miles10
Cross City12.0 miles10
Horseshoe12.2 miles11
Eugene14.4 miles10

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 Q122569767The 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 300236. 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.