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Chatmire, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dunnellon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34432. It stands on Rainbow River. The Survey maps it on the Dunnellon quadrangle.

Chatmire within Marion County

Then and now

1892 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chatmire, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Chatmire, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Chatmire between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,353 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 18 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
Equipment and vehicle use52
Natural37
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism18
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service09/AKOLA FIRE/0907
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-08-1096 MARION
31 August 2001Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Dunnellon1.3 miles18
Rainbow Falls (historical)2.6 miles18
Rainbow Springs3.6 miles18
Rocksprings5.1 miles18
Rolling Ranches5.8 miles17
Rainbow Lakes Estates6.0 miles17
Luddersville6.4 miles17
Rolling Hills7.1 miles17

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 Q122562595The 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 280345. 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.