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Creels, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32328. It stands on Doyle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Creels within Franklin County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The 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 sheet of Creels, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Creels, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Creels between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,650 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural22
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 1992Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTOWER RD EQUIPMENT (19-5)
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEAST BAY COMAND
27 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTOWER RD (19) -0525
13 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) SUZUKI FIRE
30 August 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creels in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 tornado. 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
January 2017Tornado (EF1)Creels-Across rural Franklin County, a tornado touched down just west of SR-65 on the north side of East Bay. This tornado tracked across SR-65 before dissipating prior to reaching Juniper Creek Road. Damage along the path of the tornado was limited to snapped or uprooted pine trees. Damage along the track was consistent with an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 105 mph.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Hays Place2.4 miles16
Beverly3.8 miles16
High Bluff4.5 miles17
Achackwaithle (historical)5.7 miles16
Magnolia Bluffs6.0 miles17
Green Point6.0 miles17
Eastpoint6.1 miles17
Bay City7.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295225. 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.

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.