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.
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
10 surveys from 16 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 Beverly quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Carrabelle quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
95 since 1992Regional 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 use | 24 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1992 | Natural | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | TOWER RD EQUIPMENT (19-5) |
| 3 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | EAST BAY COMAND |
| 27 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | TOWER RD (19) -0525 |
| 13 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (19) SUZUKI FIRE |
| 30 August 1997 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2017 | Tornado (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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hays Place | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Beverly | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| High Bluff | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Achackwaithle (historical) | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Magnolia Bluffs | 6.0 miles | 17 | |
| Green Point | 6.0 miles | 17 | |
| Eastpoint | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Bay City | 7.4 miles | 16 |
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.









