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Carrabelle Lighthouse, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32322. It stands on Boggy Jordan Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Carrabelle quadrangle.

Carrabelle Lighthouse within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carrabelle Lighthouse, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Carrabelle Lighthouse, surveyed 1943

On record in Carrabelle Lighthouse

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Carrabelle Lighthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning16
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) RIVER ROAD FIRE
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) SANBORN ROAD FIRE
28 September 2006Recreation and ceremony15 acresFlorida Forest Service(19) WARREN BLUFF COMMAND
20 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(19) SAND SPUR FIRE
20 September 1996Smoking6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLAGOON (19-5)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Carrabelle Lighthouse: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Dot Tallahassee - Yent Bayou MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Carrabelle Beach1.0 miles20
Yent Place2.5 miles20
Carrabelle2.6 miles20
High Bluff6.6 miles17
Lanark Village6.8 miles20
Pine Log8.4 miles20
Green Point8.4 miles17
Big Blackjack Landing8.8 miles20

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 Q122545593The 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 295180. 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.