Cohowfoochee, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Southwest Leon census division. The Survey maps it on the Lake Talquin SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cohowfoochee within Leon County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cohowfoochee (historical), surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Cohowfoochee (historical), surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1943 USGS Lake Talquin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Lake Talquin SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

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 Cohowfoochee (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,236 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 11 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
Natural	74
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	ONE TON
8 September 1992	Natural	5.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(65) 267 BRUSH FIRE
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	National Forests in Florida	2A
18 September 1997	Natural	15 acres	National Forests in Florida	CLEAR LAKE
16 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	National Forests in Florida	DIRTY TRUCK
11 September 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	LOST CREEK
9 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Helen	6.0 miles	16
Fort Braden	6.4 miles	12
Spring Hill	6.4 miles	16
Holland	6.6 miles	12
Andrew	6.9 miles	16
Bloxham	7.5 miles	13
Jackson Bluff	8.1 miles	13
Norfleet	9.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 306991. 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.