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Chipola Terrace, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Marianna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32446. The Survey maps it on the Marianna quadrangle.

Chipola Terrace within Jackson County

Then and now

1952 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chipola Terrace, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chipola Terrace, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Chipola Terrace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 602 acres in total. 8 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
Debris and open burning61
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking11
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service32/MAEBELLE LANE-0595
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSYLVANIA PLANTAION (32)
4 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service32/WILLIS RD-0589
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOOD BRIER (32)
29 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service32/SYLVANIA PLANTATION-0621
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 71 N (32)
17 September 1995Natural90 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service32/BLUE SPRINGS-0900

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Chipola Terrace: 6 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand, Clay, Clay, 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
Panhandle Paving and Grading - Spring Cem. PitClay, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone, Clay
Unnamed Limestone and Shale ProsStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProspect
Harrison Consruction - Mac's Dirt MineSandUnknown
Jackson Co. Bd. of Co. Comm. - East Landfill MineSandUnknown
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Ls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chipola Terrace in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindChipola Terrace-A tree was blown down on Mt Tabor Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindChipola Terrace-Multiple trees were blown down along Highway 71.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindChipola Terrace-Trees were blown down on Poplar Springs Road.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Greenwood3.0 miles14
Mallory Heights4.7 miles14
Marianna4.9 miles14
Two Egg5.1 miles13
Dellwood6.2 miles13
Bascom7.4 miles13
Lovedale7.4 miles13
Star7.7 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 Q122552165The 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 295192. 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.