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Capps, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Wacissa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32344. The Survey maps it on the Waukeenah quadrangle.

Capps within Jefferson 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 Capps, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Capps, surveyed 1954

On record in Capps

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Capps between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning24
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(33) TEXACO FIRE
10 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2011Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWPA RD (33)
14 June 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(33) MULCH FIRE
5 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Capps: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capps in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindCapps$3,000Trees were blown down around Capps. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCapps$3,000A few trees and power lines were blown down east of Capps on US-27. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindCapps$1,000A large tree was blown across power lines and into Highway 27 between Capps and Wakeena.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCapps-A tree was blown down along Avalon Road.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Capps-A tornado touched down briefly in a wooded area. There was a short narrow swath of pine trees with their tops snapped off.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Waukeenah2.2 miles9
Nash3.2 miles9
Hatchcakamocha (historical)3.9 miles9
Thomas City5.0 miles9
Wacissa5.4 miles9
Lamont5.7 miles9
Wacissa (historical)5.7 miles9
Drifton6.1 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on CappsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5036192The 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 280013. 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.