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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.

Browns Still within Union County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The 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 sheet of Browns Still, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Browns Still, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

185 since 1992

Regional 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 burning66
Equipment and vehicle use31
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning350 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFERN POND (63)
23 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03-63-LITE FIRE-1108
21 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW 52ND PLACE(63)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBrowns Still$200A tree was blown down. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBrowns Still-Two trees were blown down along West State Road 238.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBrowns Still-Trees were blown down along County Road 245 between Providence and Miller.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Miller1.7 miles8
Providence3.3 miles9
Brown3.5 miles8
Dukes4.6 miles8
Worthington Springs5.2 miles8
Dana6.0 miles8
Guilford6.4 miles8
Danville6.4 miles9

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 Q122570722The 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.