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Clay Landing, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Palatka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32177. It sits by Palmetto Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle.

Clay Landing within Putnam County

Then and now

1947 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clay Landing, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Clay Landing, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

195 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Clay Landing between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,760 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 21 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
Natural55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism21
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
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
28 September 2018Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRIDGEPORT RD (54)
20 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePALMETTO(54)
19 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOODWARD (55)
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/MILLICAN RD FIRE
18 September 2016Natural49 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST CREEK 2 (54)
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOODWARD RD(55)
14 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/RUN AWAY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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
Bridgeport1.5 miles13
Federal Point2.1 miles16
Fairview3.8 miles16
Bostwick4.0 miles14
Teasdale5.2 miles17
Cypress Point5.5 miles16
Grandview5.5 miles16
Patersonville6.0 miles16

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 Q122595806The 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 295199. 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.