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Burbank, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Fort McCoy-Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. The Survey maps it on the Anthony quadrangle.

Burbank within Marion County

Then and now

1893 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burbank, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Burbank, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Burbank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,475 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 8 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
Natural64
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGORE'S LANDING42)
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/SIX PINE FIRE
25 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE 315(42)
18 August 2016Natural26 acresNational Forests in FloridaBLUFF
17 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCONNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burbank in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flood. 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 2017FloodBurbank-Water covered Burbank Road.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Conner4.1 miles9
Grahamsville4.5 miles9
Bruceville4.9 miles9
Cedar Creek5.4 miles10
Fort McCoy5.4 miles10
Nubys Corner5.5 miles9
Lacota5.6 miles9
Anthony5.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295163. 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.