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Crows Bluff, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. It lies near Drigger Islands. The Survey maps it on the Lake Woodruff quadrangle.

Crows Bluff within Lake County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crows Bluff, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Crows Bluff, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Crows Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,253 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 29 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
Natural79
Equipment and vehicle use41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony17
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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 1992Natural100 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeGATOR LAKE
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
5 September 2014Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaFERNANDEZ 14
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarism50 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeHOT TIME
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(35) CUMMER
8 August 2008Natural1.7 acresNational Forests in FloridaFERNANDEZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
River Forest0.4 miles10
Forest Hills2.0 miles10
Saint Francis2.5 miles10
Lake Mack Park2.8 miles13
Fullerville3.4 miles10
Pine Hills4.3 miles13
Florida Hills4.6 miles13
Pine Lakes5.1 miles13

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 Q122553162The 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 305533. 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.