BlockCurtis Mill, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the West Wakulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32358. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sanborn quadrangle.
Then and now
1945 to 1990The 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.
Compare 1945 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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 Sanborn quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Sanborn quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Sanborn quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
102 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Curtis Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,578 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 13 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 | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1992 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | WOOD LAKE |
| 20 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | National Forests in Florida | ALLIGATOR |
| 19 August 1993 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | MINNOW |
| 8 July 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (65) SEMINOLE |
| 8 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge | NATOUT5 |
| 7 July 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | SOPCHOPPY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curtis Mill in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Curtis Mill | $2,000 | Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Curtis Mill | - | Flooded roads were reported near the Wakulla County Bridge and Highway 319. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Curtis Mill | - | The Sopchoppy post office reported that several side roads off of Highway 319 were flooded south of Sopchoppy. Between 6 and 10 inches of rain fell in just a few hours in the area. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Curtis Mill | - | Trees were blown down south of Sopchoppy. |
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.
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 Q122569208 | The 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 305536. 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.