Browns Still, Florida
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Worthington Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32054. The Survey maps it on the Worthington Springs quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Worthington Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
185 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Browns Still between 1992 and 2020, burning about 910 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 17 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 burning | 66 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 31 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 1999 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 350 acres | Florida Forest Service | FERN POND (63) |
| 23 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 03-63-LITE FIRE-1108 |
| 21 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 1998 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | NW 52ND PLACE(63) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browns Still in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browns Still | $200 | A tree was blown down. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browns Still | - | Two trees were blown down along West State Road 238. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Browns Still | - | Trees were blown down along County Road 245 between Providence and Miller. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller | 1.7 miles | 8 | |
| Providence | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Brown | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Dukes | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Worthington Springs | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Dana | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Guilford | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Danville | 6.4 miles | 9 |
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 Q122570722 | The 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 279496. 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.




