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Cairo, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Youngstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32404. It stands on Bird Pond Slough. The Survey maps it on the Youngstown quadrangle.

Cairo within Bay County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cairo, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Cairo, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Cairo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,088 acres in total. 32 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
Debris and open burning56
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Natural32
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03/TOWER ROAD
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03/KELLER-0555
22 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSKINNER RD
22 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCAMPFLOWERS RD 1307 (03)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cairo: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gulf Asphalt - Camp Flowers Rd. PitSandProducer
Regester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bay County Board of Co. Comm. - Camp Flowers MineClayUnknown
Bay County Board of Co. Comm. - Highway 231ClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2016: 2 flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2016FloodCairo$10,000A portion of Camp Flowers Road was washed out. Damage was estimated.
March 2016FloodCairo-Minor flooding was reported in the Fountain and Youngstown areas with around 4 inches of standing water on some roads.
May 2006HailCairo-Penny size hail reported by a WJHG-TV Panama City meteorologist.

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Nixon1.8 miles14
Majette2.5 miles15
Bayou George4.4 miles15
Youngstown4.6 miles14
Bayhead5.6 miles15
Couch5.9 miles14
Resota Beach6.2 miles15
Bennett6.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295170. 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.

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.