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Cottage Hill, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cantonment census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32533. The Survey maps it on the Molino quadrangle.

Cottage Hill within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cottage Hill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cottage Hill, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Cottage Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 701 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Railroad operations and maintenance85
Debris and open burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use32
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural4
Smoking4
Fireworks1
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
6 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOLD CHEMSTRAND ROAD (17)
27 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCHEMSTRAND ROAD (17)
25 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresFlorida Forest Service611
16 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cottage Hill: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ford Farm Sand and Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottage Hill in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCottage Hill$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damage a barn and snapped several small trees.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Cantonment2.0 miles17
Farm Hill2.2 miles17
Quintette2.4 miles16
Gonzalez3.8 miles17
Satsuma Heights4.2 miles17
Muscogee4.5 miles16
Molino Crossroads6.0 miles16
Molino6.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 280875. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.