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Cypress, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cypress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32442. The Survey maps it on the Cypress quadrangle. It stands 138 feet above sea level.

Cypress within Jackson County

Then and now

1952 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 42 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, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cypress, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

On record in Cypress

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Cypress between 1992 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning65
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service32/OLD SPANISH TRAIL-0515
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-02-1052
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMILE MARKER 144 (32)
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use57 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLOUNT ROAD (32)
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceELLENORA LN (32)
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMM145 EAST (32)
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEWER PLANT (32)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypress in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2009Thunderstorm WindCypress$5,000A roof was blown off a mobile home.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindCypress-Trees were blown down on Hollister Road just east of Lawrence Road.
May 2023FloodCypress-Minor flooding was reported on Reddoch Road.
April 2022FloodCypress-Nada Road was reported to be flooded.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCypress-Trees were blown down on Lawrence Road and Camelot Lane.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCypress-Trees were blown down between Mariana and Grand Ridge.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCypress-Trees were blown down in the Cypress area.
September 2013Flash FloodCypress-The Jackson county Sheriff's office reported that Church Street at Rocky Creek road was flooded and Express Street about 20 feet from Church Street also had rapidly flowing water moving across it. Radar estimated that 4 to 6 inches of rain fell in 2 to 3 hours.
April 2021HailCypress-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Grand Ridge2.8 miles13
Star3.3 miles13
Inwood5.4 miles13
Simsville5.8 miles13
Shady Grove5.8 miles13
Oakdale5.9 miles13
Rock Creek6.2 miles13
Ocheesee Gardens6.7 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.

Wikipedia article on CypressAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5200300The 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 281190. 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.