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Cypress Creek, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Jasper census division. The Survey maps it on the Cypress Creek quadrangle.

Cypress Creek within Hamilton County

Then and now

1954 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cypress Creek, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Cypress Creek, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Creek between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,928 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 5 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
Natural32
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service04-24-PCA 2 FIRE-0855
23 August 2011Natural319 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGEORGIA STATE LINE (24-6)
9 July 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOODPECKER ROUTE (24-6)
28 July 2012Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROGERS (24-6)
21 July 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-ECHOLS-003
14 July 1993Natural31 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypress Creek in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCypress Creek$200A tree was blown down at 2680 SW 135 Road. The cost of damage was estimated.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Watson3.9 miles10
Kennedy Still5.3 miles8
Belmont5.7 miles9
Blacks Still7.4 miles9
Bakers Mill7.7 miles8
Jasper9.0 miles8
Hillcoat9.3 miles8
Rawls9.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 281196. 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.