Cook, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32404. It stands on Cooks Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Long Point quadrangle.

Cook within Bay County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

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 Cook, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Cook, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1944 USGS Long Point quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Long Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Long Point quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Cook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,813 acres in total. 30 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	03 / HUNTING LEASE
8 September 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	03-STAR & TRAM RD 2005-02-0572
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 August 1997	Natural	135 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cook: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sikes Concrete Co./Oliver Creek Mine	Sand	Producer

Every working recorded in Bay 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
Old Callaway	3.2 miles	15
Callaway	3.4 miles	15
Parker	4.6 miles	15
Long Point	4.6 miles	16
Springfield	5.4 miles	15
Bay Harbor	5.4 miles	15
San Blas	5.4 miles	16
Cromanton	6.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 298064. 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.