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Chaires, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the East Leon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32317. It stands on Hall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lloyd quadrangle. 308 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Chaires within Leon County

Then and now

1954 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chaires, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Chaires, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

On record in Chaires

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

7 surveys from 12 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Chaires between 1992 and 2019, burning about 232 acres in total. 3 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
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
26 September 2017Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOOT OWL LOOP (37)
5 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2000Debris and open burning22 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1995Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(37)TRAM COUNTY LINE FIRE
18 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon 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 Chaires: 1 unknown. 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
Leon Co Board of Comm. - Leon County #1 MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaires in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindChaires$7,500Several trees and power lines were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindChaires$4,000Multiple trees were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindChaires$1,000A few utility poles were down south of U.S. Highway 27 just west of Chaires Crossroads.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindChaires$500Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindChaires$500Few trees were blown down.
April 2024FloodChaires-Leon County Emergency Management reported road closures along Capitola Road between Chaires Crossroad and Baum Road due to water covering roadways. This flooding was slow to recede and persisted for several days after the heavy rain ended.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindChaires-A tree was blown down at Chaires Cross Road and Parkhill Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindChaires-A tree was blown down on Capitola Road at Benjamin Chaires Road.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindChaires-A tree was reported down at Chaires Crossroads.
April 2014Flash FloodChaires-The intersection of Buck Lake Road and Chaires Road is impassible due to flooding from heavy rain in a short period of time.
April 2009FloodChaires-High water covering Henry Moss Circle and Chaires Crossroad.
February 2006HailChaires-Golfball size hail reported by a WTXL-TV meteorologist.
June 2002HailChaires-Dime size hail fell on State Highway 20. Reported by the Leon County EMA.
May 1997HailChaires-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Capitola1.9 miles12
Gardner3.8 miles15
Homestead Ridge4.5 miles12
Black Creek5.2 miles12
Lafayette5.3 miles15
Wadesboro5.5 miles12
Perkins5.7 miles15
Baum5.7 miles12

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 ChairesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5068070The 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 280278. 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.