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Dickert, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Live Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32060. The Survey maps it on the Live Oak West quadrangle.

Dickert within Suwannee 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 Dickert, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Dickert, 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.

Fires near this place

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Dickert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,257 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 9 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 burning98
Railroad operations and maintenance83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Equipment and vehicle use26
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Smoking1

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service153RD RD (61)
30 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service04-61-GRAHAM FIRE-1418
28 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service61-THOMAS FIRE-1150
5 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2016Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service193RD PLACE (61)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suwannee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dickert: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Suwannee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Suwannee 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
Falmouth3.1 miles9
Starr3.8 miles9
Mercer4.6 miles9
Fort Union5.0 miles9
Slade5.4 miles8
Newburn5.6 miles9
Ellaville5.7 miles11
Live Oak6.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295243. 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.