BlockCouch, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Youngstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32466. It stands on Double Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fountain quadrangle.
Then and now
1945 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1945 USGS Fountain quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Fountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
152 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Couch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,136 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 8 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 | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | 80 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | GRIFFIN ROAD (03) |
| 22 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2019 | Natural | 36 acres | Florida Forest Service | CRESTLINE RD (07) |
| 17 September 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | MANOR RD (03) |
| 17 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 16 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301111. 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.