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Cassia, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32736. The Survey maps it on the Pine Lakes quadrangle.

Cassia within Lake County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cassia, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Cassia, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Cassia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,983 acres in total. 112 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
Natural112
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
16 September 2013Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCULVERT (35)
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2007Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest Service35/BOTANY FIRE/1075
7 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance37 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2009Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service35/LEEWARD ROAD FIRE/0856
4 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service35/BOTNAY WOODS-0852
31 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceYOUPON TRAIL 2 (35)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cassia: 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free. 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
Eustis MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eustis Sand Co. - Eustis MineSandProducer
Lake County DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1960

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cassia in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCassia-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees west of Cassia.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCassia-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees on Highway 44 near Cassia.
April 2006HailCassia-no account filed
March 2001HailCassia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
South Pine Lakes3.4 miles13
Pine Lakes4.0 miles13
Florida Hills4.5 miles13
Seminole Springs4.5 miles13
Pine Hills4.9 miles13
Ethel6.1 miles13
Mount Plymouth6.7 miles13
Chain O'Lakes7.0 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 Q122553231The 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 305453. 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.