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Dahoma, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Callahan-Hilliard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32009. The Survey maps it on the Bryceville quadrangle.

Dahoma within Nassau County

Then and now

1917 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dahoma, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Dahoma, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Dahoma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,566 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 11 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
Natural53
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
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
22 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Service45 HAMBONE RAIL 2007-07-0543
22 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePONDEROSA 2003-07-1085
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRAIN TRACK (45)
26 August 2000Natural175 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2018Natural5.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOGGING ROAD (45)
24 August 1999Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dahoma in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2025Heavy RainDahoma-Between 4 and 5 pm today personal weather station KFLBRYCE24 measured 2.5 inches of rain.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindDahoma-A 25-ft section of a roof was peeled off of a barn and farm equipment dispersed due to thunderstorm winds at 19856 County Road 121 west of Hilliard.

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
Verdie2.5 miles17
Crawford3.1 miles17
Keene3.4 miles18
Ingle3.7 miles17
Kent4.7 miles17
Bryceville6.1 miles17
Ratliff6.3 miles18
Callahan7.6 miles18

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 DahomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5208929The 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 294735. 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.