Danville, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lake Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32054. The Survey maps it on the Lake Butler quadrangle.

Danville within Union County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Danville, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Danville, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Lake Butler quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Danville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,710 acres in total. 22 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
Debris and open burning	43
Railroad operations and maintenance	34
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Natural	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
6 September 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	NW 124TH AVE (63)
6 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	186TH PLACE (63)
26 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	161 ST (04)
17 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SR 100 (63)
16 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lake Butler	2.2 miles	9
Brown	3.0 miles	8
Dukes	3.1 miles	8
Cliftonville	3.2 miles	8
Dana	3.7 miles	8
Guilford	4.3 miles	8
Miller	5.5 miles	8
Worthington Springs	5.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294739. 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.