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Chumuckla Springs, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Allentown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32565. It stands on Diamond Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDavid quadrangle.

Chumuckla Springs within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1941 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chumuckla Springs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chumuckla Springs, surveyed 1941

Compare 1941 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Chumuckla Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 844 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 use47
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Smoking3

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service57-PILE FIRE-1481
30 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMALONE FIRE - 1138
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOON HILL FIRE-1133
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service57-ANNIE PENTON ROAD FIRE
25 August 2000Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSIDHAYESRD FIRE-1485

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Chumuckla Springs: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand. 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
Campbell Sand and Gravel - Barth MineSandUnknown
Mcmillan Mill Company PitClayPast Producer
Mcmillian Mill Company 2 PitClayPast Producer
Mcmillian Mill Company 3 PitClayPast Producer
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Howell MineClayUnknown
Unnamed Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Mineral Springs0.1 miles15
Brownsdale5.0 miles15
Chumuckla5.0 miles13
New York5.1 miles13
Cobbtown9.9 miles14
Jay11.2 miles15
Wallace12.4 miles14
Whitfield13.3 miles14

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 Q122567599The 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 280447. 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.