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Cannon Town, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32531. The Survey maps it on the Baker quadrangle.

Cannon Town within Okaloosa County

Then and now

1949 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cannon Town, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Cannon Town, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Cannon Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,125 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.6 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresEglin Air Force BasePINCH
20 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSMALL FIRE. - 1083
7 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGATOR HOLE FIRE-1011
3 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDAIRY ROAD (46)
17 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDOWN POWERLINE (46)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okaloosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannon Town in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash 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
August 2009Flash FloodCannon Town$25,000Sherman Kennedy Road north of Baker was closed to through traffic due to excessive washing of the roadway. The closed area was between John Riley Barnhill Road and Kilcrease Road.

Every storm recorded in Okaloosa 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
Nubbin Ridge1.0 miles13
Baker4.0 miles13
Blackman5.2 miles14
Clear Springs5.7 miles14
Beaver Creek5.8 miles12
Peaden6.1 miles13
Silver Springs7.3 miles14
Milligan7.3 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 Q122558389The 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 294704. 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.