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Day, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Day census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32013. The Survey maps it on the Day quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Day within Lafayette County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Day, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Day, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Day fell from 116 to 89 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010116
202089-27 (-23%)

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.

Fires near this place

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Day between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,048 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 7 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 burning26
Natural26
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 53 HAY FIRE (34)
6 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOFTON RD (34)
31 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePRISON (34)
22 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service34 - BREWER LAKE #347
11 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBOMBER RD (34)
9 July 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service231ST ROAD (61)
6 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Day: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dell Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Anderson Mining Corp. - Dowling Pond MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
White Constr. - Dowling ParkLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Day in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado. 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
April 2014FloodDay$856,000Areal flooding occurred across Lafayette county at the end of the month due to a combination of heavy rainfall and already saturated conditions. Many roads in the county sustained damage with damage estimated at $855,857.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Day$75,000A F0 tornado briefly touched down at the HBCN Dairy on County Road 251. The barn was lifted nearly 30 feet off the ground. Its roof along with twisted metal and debris were strewn across the field. The feeding and milking barns were damaged. Reported by the Mayo Free Press.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDay$1,000The Lafayette County Sheriff reported a few trees and power lines down.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDay-A tree was blown down near N County Road 53 and NW County Road 348.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindDay-A few trees were blown down near NW County Road 251.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindDay-A tree was blown down on Turlington Lane.
May 2006HailDay-A WCTV6 Tallahassee meteorologist reported golfball size hail covering the ground west of Dowling Park.
June 1998WildfireDay-Wildfires consumed 75 acres of timberland along the northeastern edge of the San Pedro Bay fire complex, about three miles west of Day. No homes were threatened. A local state of emergency was declared for Lafayette County on June 18.
February 1998HailDay-WTWC TV News 40 Tallahassee meteorologist reported golfball size hail accumulated 4" deep in Day.
May 1996HailDay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Mayo Junction1.5 miles9
Chancey3.6 miles9
Buckville4.5 miles9
Townsend5.2 miles9
Peterson8.1 miles8
Mayo11.5 miles8
Alton12.7 miles8
San Pedro Junction13.3 miles8

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 DayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5800529The 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 281348. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.