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Douglass Crossroads, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Redbay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32435. The Survey maps it on the Ponce de Leon quadrangle.

Douglass Crossroads within Walton County

Then and now

1948 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 46 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Douglass Crossroads, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Douglass Crossroads, surveyed 1948

Compare 1948 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Douglass Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,145 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use65
Debris and open burning43
Railroad operations and maintenance42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
30 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 90 PDL (30)
19 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 81 (66)
18 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Douglass Crossroads: 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ditch Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Morrison Springs Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Springs Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Walton 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
Knox Hill3.3 miles15
Argyle4.2 miles15
Eucheeanna4.6 miles15
Koerber5.7 miles15
Walcan6.3 miles15
Redbay6.8 miles13
De Funiak Springs7.7 miles15
Union8.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294749. 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.