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Dogtown, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Havana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32352. The Survey maps it on the Dogtown quadrangle. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Dogtown within Gadsden County

Then and now

1954 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dogtown, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Dogtown, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Dogtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 985 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR028
22 September 2010Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DECATUR-013
21 September 2010Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DECATUR-011
21 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DECATUR-007
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gadsden County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dogtown: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Clay. 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
Englehard Corp. - Swisher MineClayProducerAttapulgite, Montmorillonite
Gasden MineClayProducer
Hinson Fla.ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Jamieson Fla.ClayPast ProducerMontmorillonite, Attapulgite
Mccall PitClayProducer
Quincy Fla.ClayPast Producer1895
Donaldson QuarryFullers EarthProducer
Englehart Decatur MineFullers EarthProducer
Gunn Farm MineFullers EarthProducer
Havana Clay MineFullers EarthPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gadsden County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dogtown in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDogtown-A tree was blown down near Attapulgus Highway.
March 2024HailDogtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gadsden 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
Branchville2.0 miles12
Jamieson3.0 miles12
Hinson5.1 miles12
Freemont5.2 miles12
Attapulgas (historical)5.4 miles13
Florence6.0 miles12
Littman6.0 miles13
Havana6.0 miles12

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 DogtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17514421The 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 295245. 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.