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Chancey, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Day census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32066. It stands on Bethel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Day quadrangle.

Chancey within Lafayette 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 Chancey, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Chancey, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Chancey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 946 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 6 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 burning46
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
7 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMILL CREEK #2 (40)
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service217TH (61)
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service04-61-209TH RD FIRE-0854
3 August 2012Natural27 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWINQUEPIN 1 (40)
28 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service34 - BREWER LAKE #347

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chancey: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Anderson Mining Corp. - Dowling Pond MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
White Constr. - Dowling ParkLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chancey in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. 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
April 2011HailChancey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Mayo Junction2.4 miles9
Day3.6 miles9
Buckville7.9 miles9
Townsend8.7 miles9
Peterson10.5 miles8
Mayo13.7 miles8
Alton14.5 miles8
San Pedro Junction16.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295189. 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.