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Dixietown, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cross City North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32680. It sits by McMillan Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Wannee quadrangle.

Dixietown within Dixie 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 Dixietown, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Dixietown, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Dixietown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 19 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 burning52
Equipment and vehicle use45
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
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
19 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAINLINE (15)
24 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRADING POST (15)
19 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service15 - STUMP FIRE #0442
6 July 1998Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2009Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service15 - ANDREW SAULS GRADE-0196

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Dixietown: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Sander's Carl Farm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dixie 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
Fletcher2.3 miles11
Suwanee Old Town (historical)6.4 miles10
Old Town7.4 miles10
Eugene8.6 miles10
Cross City9.0 miles10
Shamrock9.6 miles10
Hines13.5 miles10
Jonesboro16.6 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122541401The 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 300231. 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.