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Casa Blanco, Florida

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32344. The Survey maps it on the Lake Miccosukee quadrangle.

Casa Blanco within Jefferson County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Casa Blanco, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Casa Blanco, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Casa Blanco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 616 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning43
Railroad operations and maintenance39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(33) TEXACO FIRE
1 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(33) WILD TURKEY
17 July 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casa Blanco in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCasa Blanco$2,000Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage near the intersection of Waukeenah Highway and Highway 19.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindCasa Blanco$2,000Power lines were blown down south of Monticello.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCasa Blanco$2,000Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage in the Drifton area.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCasa Blanco-Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage off of Waukeenah Highway.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCasa Blanco-A tree was blown down along Highway 19 near Aucilla Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCasa Blanco-Fallen trees or limbs were resulted in a power outage near Highway 19 and Waukeenah Highway.
January 2021Flash FloodCasa Blanco-Highway 19 north of the railroad bridge was temporarily closed due to flooding from heavy rain of 5-8 inches in a short period of time.
June 2009HailCasa Blanco-Dime to penny size hail was observed south of Monticello.

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
Drifton1.5 miles9
Lois1.6 miles7
Montivilla2.2 miles7
Monticello2.2 miles7
Hatchcakamocha (historical)3.5 miles9
Nash4.3 miles9
Alma6.6 miles7
Festus7.3 miles7

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 Q122571138The 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 294707. 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.