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Cobb Cross Roads, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Esto-Noma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32440. It lies near Balcom Hill. The Survey maps it on the Graceville quadrangle.

Cobb Cross Roads within Holmes County

Then and now

1951 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cobb Cross Roads, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cobb Cross Roads, surveyed 1951

Compare 1951 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Cobb Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 554 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning35
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
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
9 September 1995Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170926-3
25 September 2019Other causes1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceST MARKS ST (30)
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceREDDICK MILL ( 30 )
23 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2002Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes 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 Cobb Cross Roads: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Unnamed Clay DepositsClayProspect

Every working recorded in Holmes 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
Eleanor1.1 miles15
Underwood Crossing2.0 miles15
Tendil Crossing2.1 miles15
Wynnlum2.4 miles15
Noma Junction3.8 miles15
Noma3.8 miles15
Esto5.2 miles14
Holland Crossroads5.4 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 Q122589170The 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 294718. 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.