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Bucell Junction, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32348. The Survey maps it on the Perry quadrangle.

Bucell Junction within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bucell Junction, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Bucell Junction, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

413 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 413 fires within 5 miles of Bucell Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,214 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 34 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 burning112
Equipment and vehicle use72
Railroad operations and maintenance50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism34
Natural33
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Smoking15
Recreation and ceremony8
Other causes4
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePARKER FIRE #2 (OF2)
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePARKER FIRE #1 (OF 2)
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 98 FIRE (62)
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOMER J. SMITH(62)
23 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceJACKSON ROAD (62)
22 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKINSEY ROAD (62)
2 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucell Junction in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 6 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBucell Junction$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage along Foley Cut-Off Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBucell Junction$2,000A power line was blown down along Beach Road.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBucell Junction$2,000Power lines were blown down on Mixon Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBucell Junction$2,000Trees were blown down on Mixon Road near Perry. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindBucell Junction$1,000A power line was blown down on Shady Oaks.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBucell Junction$1,000A couple of trees were blown down along Shipman Lane southeast of Perry. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Foley1.3 miles9
Fenholloway3.2 miles9
Perry3.6 miles9
Pinland3.9 miles9
Hampton Springs5.4 miles10
Athena6.5 miles10
Secotan8.5 miles10
Boyd8.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295159. 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.