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Bunker Donation, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Caryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32462. It lies near Bear Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Millers Ferry quadrangle.

Bunker Donation within Washington County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bunker Donation, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bunker Donation, surveyed 1949

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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Donation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 809 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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 use27
Debris and open burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
15 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceICE TEA RD (67)
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service145
29 June 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bunker Donation: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Spears Camp Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working 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
Millers Ferry3.1 miles13
Live Oak3.3 miles13
Red Head3.4 miles16
New Hope4.5 miles13
Ebro5.8 miles16
Coosada Old Town (historical)7.2 miles15
Holmes Valley7.4 miles14
Norum7.5 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 Q122547095The 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 307110. 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.