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Dowling Park, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Dowling Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32060. The Survey maps it on the Dowling Park quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Dowling Park 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 Dowling Park, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Dowling Park, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Dowling Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 871 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 6 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 burning62
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMILL CREEK #2 (40)
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service217TH (61)
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service04-61-209TH RD FIRE-0854
3 August 2012Natural27 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWINQUEPIN 1 (40)
28 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suwannee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dowling Park: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Anderson Mining Corp. - Dowling Pond MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
White Constr. - Dowling ParkLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Suwannee County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dowling Park in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDowling Park$5,000Shed destroyed. Large trees were blown down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDowling Park$2,000Numerous large trees and powerlines down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDowling Park$1,000Trees were blown down across the road at 14004 217th Road. Damage cost was estimated.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDowling Park$500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindDowling Park-Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park reported a tree was blown down across an access road. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDowling Park-Trees were blown down east of Dowling Park and Luraville which caused partial road blockage. The time of damage was based on radar data.
April 2011HailDowling Park-Nickel to pea size hail was reported in Dowling Park.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDowling Park-Power lines were blown down in Dowling Park.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindDowling Park-Trees were blown down. One tree broke the window of a mobile home. There were no injuries reported. The time of the event was based on radar.
November 2002Funnel CloudDowling Park-Several reports of funnel cloud sightings.
February 2006HailDowling Park-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDowling Park-no account filed
June 2005Heavy RainDowling Park-no account filed
March 2005HailDowling Park-no account filed
March 2005HailDowling Park-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindDowling Park-no account filed
June 2003HailDowling Park-no account filed
May 1998HailDowling Park-no account filed

Every storm 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
Lancaster1.8 miles9
Newburn5.4 miles9
Mercer6.9 miles9
Dell7.4 miles9
Starr8.7 miles9
Luraville9.1 miles8
Falmouth9.9 miles9
Ellaville10.1 miles11

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 Dowling ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5302747The 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 281738. 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.