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Crackertown, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34449. The Survey maps it on the Yankeetown quadrangle.

Crackertown within Levy County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crackertown, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Crackertown, surveyed 1954

On record in Crackertown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Crackertown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,823 acres in total. 194 started naturally. 24 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
Natural194
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/ROOF FIRE
8 September 1999Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2004Natural12 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINK FIRE-0739
28 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSCHOOL CRAFT(38)
18 September 2006Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY - JIFFY LUBE FIRE
17 September 1997Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Crackertown: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crystal River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gulf Coast QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gulf Rock, Inc. - Gulf Rock No. 1 MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Holnam - Crystal River QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Independent Aggregates - Ind. Agg. QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Levy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crackertown in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2010Heavy RainCrackertown-Highway 40W was closed near the intersection of 51st Street due to street flooding from heavy rains.

Every storm recorded in Levy 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
Inglis1.0 miles12
Yankeetown1.6 miles12
Port Inglis4.9 miles11
Tidewater8.9 miles11
Beetree Ford13.5 miles11
Gulf Hammock15.1 miles10
Rosewood19.1 miles11
Sumner19.4 miles11

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 Q122554410The 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 280982. 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.